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The Universal magazine 1749 (Vol. 4, Jan-Jun.); 1750 (Vol. 6, Jan-Jun.), (Vol. 7, Jul-Dec.); 1751 (Vol. 8, Jan-Jun.); 1753 (Vol. 13, Jul-Dec.); 1754 (Vol.14, Jan-Jun.); 1760 (Vol. 27, Jul-Dec.); 1761 (Vol. 29, Jul-Dec.) 1763 (Vol. 32, Jan-Jun.); 1782 Vol. 71 (Jul-Dec.). • JOURNAL • 1 copy available.
Scottish Arctic whaling / Chelsey W. Sanger. A detailed account of the Scottish Arctic whaling industry based on a study of primary sources, including government reports, whaling company statistics, harbour registers, crew agreements, log books and diaries. The author's research also included a study of newspaper articles which provided detailed reports on each year's 'whaling window', defined by the departure and return of the fleet. The author's research suggests that whaling vessels sailing from 16 Scottish ports captured close to 20,000 bowhead whales on the hunting grounds at East Greenland, Davis Strait and Baffin Bay between 1750 and 1900, eventually depleting stocks to an uneconomic level. Crews faced hazardous weather conditions, disease, injury and death. The book is arranged chronologically following the industry's growth from its early development to ultimate collapse. The text is supported by analysis of the vessels, their home ports and catch as well as photographic plates, detailed notes and bibliography. 2016 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 639.245.1(411)
Chatham Dockyard : the rise and fall of a military industrial complex /Philip MacDougall. "Founded in 1750, Chatham Dockyard quickly became one of the most important naval yards for the construction and repair of warships, maintaining a preeminent position for the next 400 years. In this detailed new history of the yard particular attention is given to the final two hundred years of the yard's history, the artisans and laborers who worked there and the changing methods used in the construction of some of the finest warships to enter naval service."--Provided by the publisher. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.81(422.3)
Reappraisals of British colonisation in Atlantic Canada, 1700-1930 / edited by S. Karly Kehoe and Michael E. Vance. "Investigates the contested legacies of British colonisation on Canada's Atlantic coast. Engages with the legacy of British colonisation in Atlantic Canada across three sections. Situates the Scottish experience within process of British colonisation, challenging the tendency to omit the Scots from critical explorations of the colonisation process in this region. Exposes the reader to a range of experiences from across the four Atlantic Provinces, which will encourage more exciting new research. Chapters are grouped in three main sections: Dispossession and Settlement; Religion and Identity; Reappraising Memory. This collection offers new perspectives on the legacy of British colonisation by concentrating on Atlantic Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island), a region that was pivotal to safeguarding Britain's imperial ambitions, between 1750 and 1930. New and established researchers from Canada, Scotland and the United States engage with the core themes of migration, dispossession, religion, identity, and commemoration in a way that diverges markedly from existing scholarship. The research shines much-needed light on groups traditionally excluded from Britain's broader imperial narrative, highlighting the indigenous experience and the presence and agency of slaves, free people of colour and religious minorities"--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 971.502
British military and naval medicine, 1600-1830 / edited by Geoffrey L. Hudson. "Standing armies and navies brought with them military medical establishments, shifting the focus of disease management from individuals to groups. Prevention, discipline, and surveillance produced results, and career opportunities for physicians and surgeons. All these developments had an impact on medicine and society, and were in turn influenced by them. The essays within examine these phenomena, exploring the imperial context, nursing and medicine in Britain, naval medicine, as well as the relationship between medicine, the state and society"--Back cover. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 61"16/1830"
Wales and the British overseas empire : interactions and influences, 1650-1830 /edited by H.V.Bowen. Examines the many relationships between Wales and the expanding British overseas empire between 1650 and 1830, including economic, social, cultural, political, and religious interactions. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942.9"16/18"
War memories : the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in modern European culture /edited by Alan Forrest, âEtienne Franðcois and Karen Hagemann. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940"1793/1815":32.019.5
A treatise of artificial magnets; in which is shewn an easy and expeditious method of making them, superior to the best natural ones: and also a way of improving the natural ones, and of changing or converting their poles. Directions are likewise given for making the mariner's needles in the best form, and for touching them most advantageously ... Michell, J 1750 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:621.318.2/.3
Communications : an international history of the formative years /Russell Burns. Burns, R. W. c2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 659.3(091)
The book of old ships : from Egyptian galleys to clipper ships "In this classic review, noted maritime artist Gordon Grant has created 80 magnificent line illustrations of some of history's most important sailing ships, beginning with a graceful Egyptian galley (c. 1600 B.C.) and ending with a splendid five-masted clipper ship of 1921. Also depicted are a Roman trireme, a Viking longship, a sixteenth-century caravel, an East Indiaman of 1750, an early nineteenth-century brigantine, a New Bedford whaling bark, and dozens of lesser-known vessels, among them the galleass, carrack, buss, and flute. Henry B. Culver, well-known authority on naval history, has provided a detailed, meticulously researched text for each vessel, describing the materials and details of construction, how the ship's design matched its function, the period in which the vessel flourished, romance and lore surrounding the craft, and more. Naval historians and model shipbuilders will value this work as an excellent sourcebook and reference with much information on the evolution of sailing vessels, the origins of shipping, customs of the sea and other pertinent matters; sailing enthusiasts will find it a wonderful browsing book, offering an informative, handsomely illustrated look back at 3,000 years of sailing history."--Provided by the publisher. 1993 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.047(26)
Networks of empire : forced migration in the Dutch East India Company /Kerry Ward. "Kerry Ward argues that the Dutch East India Company empire manifested itself through multiple networks that amalgamated spatially and over time into an imperial web whose sovereignty was effectively created and maintained but always partial and contingent. Networks of Empire proposes that early modern empires consisted of durable networks of trade, administration, settlement, legality, and migration whose regional circuits and territorially and institutionally based nodes of regulatory power operated not only on land and sea but discursively as well." "By closely examining the Dutch East India Company's network of forced migration, this book explains how empires are constituted through the creation, management, contestation, devolution, and reconstruction of these multiple and intersecting fields of partial sovereignty."--Jacket. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325:347.71DUTCH EAST INDIA
A voyage to the Pacific Ocean : undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere : to determine the position and extent of the west side of North America ... performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery, in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 Cook, James 1784 • RARE-FOLIO • 4 copies available. 094:910.4(93/96)"1776/1780"
A Boxer memoir : descendants of Daniel Boxer of Dover /compiled and edited by Maggie Boxer ... [et al.]. A detailed study of the descendants of Daniel Boxer of Dover (c.1735-1787) and his wife Elizabeth. Daniel Boxer's only son James had three sons himself, James, Edward and William, all of whom had careers in the Royal Navy. All family members included in this text are descended from one of these three brothers. This study is based on an earlier work A Boxer Memoir written by Henry Everard Crichton Boxer in 1981 and updated in 1986 but the work has been expanded to include the female Boxer lines of descent and many more descendants. The text is divided into seven parts: the origins of the Boxer name; biographies of those family members about whom there is most information arranged in chronological order and with contextual snapshots on aspects of their lives; vignettes by line of descent providing key dates and, if known, a short account of each known descendant's life; related photographic plates and drawings; family trees; bibliography; and finally a list of descendents by name. 2012. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 92BOXER
The life of Sir John Leake, Knt, Admiral of the Fleet, etc Martin-Leake, Stephen 1750 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:92Leake
Eighteenth-century naval officers : a transnational perspective /Evan Wilson, AnnaSara Hammar, Jakob Seerup, editors. "This book surveys the lives and careers of naval officers across Europe at the height of the age of sail. It traces the professionalization of naval officers by exploring their preparation for life at sea and the challenges they faced while in command. It also demonstrates the uniqueness of the maritime experience, as long voyages and isolation at sea cemented their bond with naval officers across Europe while separating them from landlubbers. It depicts, in a way no previous study has, the parameters of their shared experiences-both the similarities that crossed national boundaries and connected officers, and the differences that can only be seen from an international perspective."--Provided by the publisher. [2019] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.333.3"17"
The age of sail : the international annual of the historic sailing ship /edited by Nicholas Tracy. 2002. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 629.123.1
The art of a nation : three centuries of Irish painting /Jonathan Benington [and others] ; edited by William Laffan. An illustrated catalogue for an exhibition of Irish paintings from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries held at Pyms Gallery in London. The catalogue comprises 30 artists: Charles Collins (c. 1700-1744); Judith Lewis (1711-1781); Nathaniel Hone the Elder (1718-1784); Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1739-1806); George Mullins (active 1756-1775/6); Matthew William Peters (1741-1814); Joseph Wilson (active 1756-d. 1793); John Boyne (c. 1750-1810); George Chinnery (1774-1852); James Arthur O'Connor (1792-1841); William Henry Maguire (1806-1853), Irish School (1837); Nathaniel Hone (1831-1917); John Butler Yeats (1839-1922); Howard Helmick (1845-1907); Sarah Purser (1848-1943); Sir John Lavery (1856-1941); Mildred Anne Butler (1858-1914); William Henry Bartlett (1858-1914); Walter Frederick Osborne (1859-1903); Roderic O'Conor (1860-1940); Grace Henry (1868-1953); Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957); Paul Henry (1876-1958); Sir William Orpen (1878-1931); William John Leech (1881-1968); Mary Swanzy (1882-1978); Frederick Edward McWilliam (1909-1992); Colin Middleton (1910-1983); and William Scott (1913-1989). 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 75(415)
The worlds of unfree labour : from indentured servitude to slavery /edited by Colin A. Palmer. 1998. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1
The Saltwater Frontier : Indians and the Contest for the American Coast /Andrew Lipman. "Andrew Lipman's eye-opening first book is the previously untold story of how the ocean became a "frontier" between colonists and Indians. When the English and Dutch empires both tried to claim the same patch of coast between the Hudson River and Cape Cod, the sea itself became the arena of contact and conflict. During the violent European invasions, the region's Algonquian-speaking Natives were navigators, boatbuilders, fishermen, pirates, and merchants who became active players in the emergence of the Atlantic World. Drawing from a wide range of English, Dutch, and archeological sources, Lipman uncovers a new geography of Native America that incorporates seawater as well as soil. Looking past Europeans' arbitrary land boundaries, he reveals unseen links between local episodes and global events on distant shores."--Provided by the publisher 2015 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(42:492)(=97)
War, empire and slavery, 1770-1830 / edited by Richard Bessel, Nicholas Guyatt and Jane Rendall. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.01:326(4-44)"1770/1830"
Jack Tar in history : essays in the history of maritime life and labour /edited by Colin Howell and Richard J. Twomey. 1991. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 387.5/09
The invention of pastel painting / Thea Burns. "Chalks and pastels are particularly appropriate materials for portraits because they appear effortlessly to convey the warm tones and soft, matte velvety surface of skin. Portraits and head studies therefore figure prominently in histories of pastel. The Invention of Pastel Painting describes the relatively sudden emergence in the later seventeenth century of sets of friable pastel sticks and a new artistic practice of painting in pastel. The author reconsiders the use of natural and fabricated drawing sticks as tools, firmly locating their use in the context of historical function. 'Artistic techniques have a social history; they are signs endowed with cultural meaning by society.' The visual, documentary and etymological evidence does not support the concept of a narrative history of pastel gradually progressing from a 'simple' original state in the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, Jean and Francois Clouet and the Dumonstiers to an increasingly richly coloured and technically complex visual record in the paintings of Robert Nanteuil, Joseph Vivien and Rosalba Carriera, and then continuing to evolve through the nineteenth century. In considering the history of chalk and pastel, the author argues that the change is aesthetic, not formal, and is grounded in social function and technical response. She has drawn not only on artists' letters and accounts, documents, critical and theoretical writings, and, broadly, the secondary literature, but also on close visual examination and scientific analysis of selected chalk drawings and paintings in pastel, particularly those created between 1500 and 1750."--Provided by the publisher. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 741.235
Britain and the China trade 1635-1842 This multi-volume work covers Britain's commercial operations in India from 1695-1842, with particular focus on meetings between British diplomats and Chinese officials in 1793 and 1816. It is designed to combine early works on the subject and significant relevant primary sources for reference use. The first five volumes consist of Hosea Ballou Morse's Chronicles of the East India Company Trading to China, 1635-1834, included for its significant transcription work of records from the India Office. Volume VI is a reprint of The Crucial Years of Early Anglo-Chinese relations, 1750-1800 by E H Pritchard, a later study that used Morse's statistics. Volume IX is Michael Greenberg's British Trade and the Opening of China 1800-42. The remaining volumes are a collection of relevant primary sources. Volumes VII and VIII examine the Macartney embassy of 1792 from different angles; Volume VII contains instructions issued to Macartney by the East India Company; Volume VIII is Macartney's private journal of the embassy. Finally, Volume X is Notes of Proceedings and Occurences During the British embassy to Pekin in 1816 by Sir George Thomas Staunton. 2000 • BOOK • 10 copies available. 382(42:51)"1635/1842"
Anglo-Saxons in the Mediterranean : commerce, politics and ideas (XVII-XX centuries) /edited by Carmel Vassallo & Michela D'Angelo. International Congress of Maritime History. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 38(42)"16/19"