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Atlas du voyage de La Perouse Galaup, Jean Francois de 1797 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(265/266)"17"
American sanctuary : mutiny, martyrdom, and national identity in the Age of Revolution /A. Roger Ekirch. "A. Roger Ekirch's American Sanctuary begins in 1797 with the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy--on the British frigate HMS Hermione, four thousand miles from England's shores, off the western coast of Puerto Rico. In the midst of the most storied epoch in British seafaring history, the mutiny struck at the very heart of military authority and at Britain's hierarchical social order. Revolution was in the air: America had won its War of Independence, the French Revolution was still unfolding, and a ferocious rebellion loomed in Ireland, with countless dissidents already arrested. Most of the Hermione mutineers had scattered throughout the North Atlantic; one of them, Jonathan Robbins, had made his way to American shores, and the British were asking for his extradition. Robbins let it be known that he was an American citizen from Danbury, Connecticut, and that he had been impressed into service by the British. John Adams, the Federalist successor to Washington as president, in one of the most catastrophic blunders of his administration, sanctioned Robbins's extradition, according to the terms of the Jay Treaty of 1794. Convicted of murder and piracy by a court-martial in Jamaica, Robbins was sentenced by the British to death, hauled up on the fore yardarm of the frigate Acasta, blindfolded with his hands tied behind his back, and hanged. Adams's miscalculation ignited a political firestorm, only to be fanned by news of Robbins's execution without his constitutional rights of due process and trial by jury. Thomas Jefferson, then vice president and leader of the emergent Republican Party, said, "No one circumstance since the establishment of our government has affected the popular mind more." Congressional Republicans tried to censure Adams, and the Federalist majority, in a bitter blow to the president, were unable to muster a vote of confidence condoning Robbins's surrender. American Sanctuary brilliantly lays out in full detail the story of how the Robbins affair and the presidential campaign of 1800 inflamed the new nation and set in motion a constitutional crisis, resulting in Adams's defeat and Jefferson's election as the third president of the United States. Ekirch writes that the aftershocks of Robbins's martyrdom helped to shape the infant republic's identity in the way Americans envisioned themselves. We see how the Hermione crisis led directly to the country's historic decision to grant political asylum to refugees from foreign governments--a major achievement in fulfilling the resonant promise of American independence, as voiced by Tom Paine, to provide "an asylum for mankind"."--Provided by the publisher. [2017] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.133
Recueil de combats et d'expeditions maritimes Ozanne, Nicolas-Marie 1797 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:355.49"1625/1738"(084.11)
To the delegates of the British fleet, at the Nore and Sheerness Friend, A 1797 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:355.133(422.3)"1797"
English travellers to Venice, 1450-1600 / edited by Michael G. Brennan. "English Travellers to Venice 1450-1600 contains 35 separate accounts (with 27 colour and 45 black and white illustrations) of the experiences of a wide range of English travellers to Venice. These accounts, drawn from contemporary manuscript and printed sources, provide vivid impressions of the challenges and hardships endured by visitors to the city and of the complexities of Anglo-Venetian relations during the pre- and post-Reformation periods. They also communicate these travellers' sense of wonder at the city's grandeur and artistic treasures and their enduring fascination with Venice's republican government, political structures and Mediterranean possessions. These travellers include pilgrims, scholars, religious exiles, ambassadors, English courtiers and noblemen, eccentric and renegade characters, seafarers and an undercover intelligence gatherer during the late 1580s for Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's 'spymaster'. This volume's introduction assesses elements of Anglo-Venetian contacts between 1450 and 1600 and examines some specific topics, such as: the leading role of Venetian naval experts in attempts in 1545 to salvage Henry VIII's flagship the Mary Rose; a first-hand account by an English visitor's servant of the disastrous and lethal 1575-7 outbreak of the plague at Venice; and, during the build-up to the Spanish Armada, the impressive international reach of the Venetian intelligence service which enabled the doge and Council to remain well informed about both Spanish and English plans. In addition to the colour plates, illustrating the brilliant artistic achievements of Venetian art by Bellini, Carpaccio, Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto, the volume includes a selection of engravings of Venetian life from the renowned collections of Giacomo Franco. A wide range of illustrations is also included from important early maps of Venice, by Erhard Reuwich for Bernard von Breydenbach's Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam (1486), Hartmann Schedel's Liber chronicarum (1493), Jacopo de' Barbari's aerial view of Venice (1500) and the stunning map of Venice in Civitates orbis terrarum (1572-1617) by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg. Perhaps most remarkable is that many of the locations, buildings, religious objects and artistic treasures described in this volume may still be seen today by visitors to this unique Italian city, renowned for centuries as 'La Serenissima'"--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 914.5/31104
History of the Adriatic : a sea and its civilization /Egidio Ivetic ; translated by Geraldine Ludbrook. "The Adriatic is 'the small Mediterranean' - a sea within a sea, part of the Mediterranean and at the same time detached from it, a largely enclosed sea with stunning coastlines and a long history of commercial, political and cultural exchange. Silent witness to the flow of civilizations, the Adriatic is the meeting point of East and West where many empires had their frontiers and some overlapped. With Italy on one side and the Balkans on the other, the Adriatic is the area where the Latin West became intertwined with the Greek and Ottoman East. This book tells the history of the Adriatic from the first cultures of the Neolithic Age through to the present day. All of the great civilizations and cultures that bordered and crossed the Adriatic are discussed: Ancient Greece and Rome, Byzantium and the Holy Roman Empire, Venice and the Ottomans, Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity and Islam. Byzantium was replaced by Venice, queen of the Adriatic, which reached its zenith at the beginning of the sixteenth century and maintained commercial and military hegemony in its Gulf, sharing the sea with the Turks, the Habsburgs, the Pope and the Spanish vice-kingdom of Naples. It was Napoleon who ended Venice's reign in 1797. In the nineteenth century, the Austrian Empire prevailed, and Central Europe reached the Mediterranean through the Adriatic. United Italy placed its most symbolic frontier in the eastern Adriatic, clashing with Austria-Hungary in the First World War. The twentieth century was marked by the prolonged conflicts and eventually peace between Yugoslavia, Albania and Italy. Today the Adriatic is a region increasingly integrated into the European Union, experiencing a new era of cooperation following the dramatic collapse of Yugoslavia. Across centuries, this book illustrates the rich cultural and artistic heritage of diverse civilizations as they left their mark on the cities, shores and states of the Adriatic"--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 909/.096385
Fellow seamen at the Nore 1797 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:355.133(422.3)"1797"
An historical survey of the French colony in the island of St Domingo ... Edwards, Bryan 1797 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:972.93
The general gazetteer : or compendious geographical dictionary ... Brookes, Richard 1797 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:91(03)
Merchant shipping : the Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) (Amendment) (No 2) Regulations 1991 Great Britain. Statutory Instruments 1991 • GOVTPUB • 1 copy available. 656.61.037:629.1.06
The quiet revolution of Caroline Herschel : the lost heroine of astronomy /Emily Winterburn. "Caroline Herschel was a prolific writer and recorder of her private and academic life, through diaries, autobiographies for family members, notebooks and observation notes. Yet for reasons unknown she destroyed all of her notebooks and diaries from 1788-1797. As a result, we have almost no record of the decade in which she made her most influential mark on science when she discovered eight comets and became the first woman to have a paper read at the Royal Society. ... By piecing together - from letters, reminiscences and museum objects - a detailed account of the time, we get to see a new side to history's 'most admirable lady astronomer' and one of the greatest pioneering female scientists of all time."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92HERSCHEL
The Times 1788- • MICROFILM • 1 copy available.
The Poetical works of Joseph Addison, with the life of the author Addison, Joseph 1797 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Addison
Ships and shipbuilding in Nelson's time Encyclopaedia Britannica 1985 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.12"17"
Geometrical and graphical essays ... Adams, George,-Geometrical and graphical essays 1797 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:514
The journals of Jeffery Amherst, 1757-1763 / edited by Robert J. Andrews. "Volume 1: General Jeffery Amherst served as commander in chief of the British army in North America during the Seven Years' War from 1758 until 1763. Under Amherst's leadership the British defeated French forces enabling the British Crown to claim Canada. Like many military officers, Amherst kept a journal of his daily activities, and the scope of this publication is from March 1757, while he was Commissary to the troops of Hesse-Kassel on British service in Germany, until his return to Great Britain in December 1763. The daily journal contains a record of and a commentary on events that Amherst witnessed or that he learned of through his correspondence. Where he mentions letters or orders received or sent, where possible, the present-day source locations of documents are identified. The Daily and Personal Journals are the record of the man who played a decisive role in British victories at Louisbourg, on Lake Champlain, and at Montreal. Amherst wrote the personal journal after he returned home. It does not have entries made on a daily basis. It is replete with lists, diagrams, and compendia to more fully explain events. Colored diagrams show dispositions or 'Orders of Battle', organizational structures, and evidence of uniform colors of units for campaigns at Louisbourg, Quebec, Niagara, Lake Champlain, the Carolinas, Montreal, and the Caribbean. In addition, Amherst made mileage charts and lists of ships, currency values, and officers who died during the war."--Provided by the publisher. [2015]. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 92AMHERST
A treatise on gonorrhoea virulenta and lues venerea Bell, Benjamin 1797 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:616.97
The Poetical works of John Cunningham, with the life of the author Cunningham, John 1797 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Cunningham
The poetical works of Thomas Tickell : with the life of the author Tickell, Thomas 1797 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:820-1
The naval officer's formula : or stationing vade mecum shewing the distribution of a ship's company of a first to a sixth rate ... 1797 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82(42):094:355.511
A treatise of maritim [sic] surveying in two parts with a prefatory essay on draughts and surveys / by Murdoch Mackenzie. Mckenzie, Murdoch, 1774. • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 528.47:094
Twentieth report : Barrack Office Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Finance 1797 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:342.537(42)"1797"
A treatise on the yellow fever as it appeared in the island of Dominica in the years 1793-1796 ... Clark, James 1797 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:616.988.7(729)"17"
Twenty-second report : auditing... the Exchequer Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Finance 1797 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:342.537(42)"1797"