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The pirate captain Ned Low : his life and mysterious fate /Nicky Nielsen. Nielsen, Nicky, 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 364.16/4092

Blood on the river : a chronicle of mutiny and freedom on the wild coast /Marjoleine Kars. "In February 1763, thousands of slaves in the Dutch colony of Berbice - in present-day Guyana - launched a massive rebellion - and very nearly succeeded. For an entire year, they fought their enslavers, dreaming of establishing a free state, what would have been the first Black republic. Instead, they vanished from history. Blood on the River is the explosive story of this forgotten revolution, an event that almost changed the face of the Americas. Historian Marjoleine Kars draws on long-buried Dutch interrogation transcripts to reconstruct a rich day-by-day account of this extraordinary event, providing a rare look at the political vision of enslaved people at the dawn of the Age of Revolution. An astonishing original work of history, Blood on the River will change our understanding of revolutions, slavery and the story of freedom in the New World."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.36209881

The Universal Navigator, and modern tourist : comprehending authentic and circumstantial narratives of the most interesting voyages and travels ... 1805 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Wilson

The dispatches and letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson / Nelson, Horatio. 1944. Nelson, Horatio Nelson,-Viscount, 1944 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"17/18"

The sailor's word-book : an alphabetical digest of nautical terms, including some more especially military and scientific, but useful to seamen; as well as archaisms of early voyages etc Smyth, W H 1867 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.12(03)

Untersuchungen èuber die Bahn des grossen Cometen vom Jahre 1811 / von Fried. Wilh. Aug. Argelander. Argelander, Fr.-(Friedrich), 1823. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 521.3"1811":094

Pirates and privateers in the 18th century : the final flourish /Mike Rendell. "Pirates and Privateers tells the fascinating story of the buccaneers who were the scourge of merchants in the 18th Century. It examines their lifestyle, looking at how the sinking of the Spanish treasure fleet in a storm off the coast of Florida led to a pirate's gold rush; how the King's Pardon was a desperate gamble - which paid off - and considers the role of individual island governors, such as Woodes Rogers in the Bahamas, in bringing piracy under control. The book also looks at how piracy has been a popular topic in print, plays, songs and now films, making thieves and murderers into swash-buckling heroes. It also considers the whole question of buried treasure - and gives a lively account of many of the pirates who dominated the so-called 'Golden Age' of Piracy."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1"17"

Eating the empire : food and society in eighteenth-century Britain /Troy Bickham. "When students gathered in a London coffeehouse and smoked tobacco, Yorkshire women sipped sugar-infused tea or a Glasgow family ate a bowl of Indian curry, were they aware of the mechanisms of imperial rule and trade that made such goods readily available? In Eating the Empire, Troy Bickham unfolds the extraordinary role that food played in shaping Britain during the 'long' eighteenth century (c. 1660-1837), when recipes from around the world peppered a new generation of popular cookery books, and coffee, tea and sugar went from rare luxuries to some of the most ubiquitous commodities in Britain, reaching even the poorest and remotest of households. The trade in the empire's edibles underpinned the emerging consumer economy, fomenting the rise of modern retailing, visual advertising and consumer credit, and, via taxes, financed the military and civil bureaucracy that secured, governed and spread the empire."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 394.12094109033

A biographical dictionary of British and Irish engravers, 1714-1820 / David Alexander. "This biographical dictionary of engravers working on copper encompasses both those who produced fine art prints, and also those who engraved book illustrations for medical, technical and literary works, all of which played a more important part than is usually realised in spreading information in the age of Enlightenment. Some 4,000 biographical entries draw on much unpublished information, researched over four decades, notably records of apprenticeship, genealogy, insurance and bankruptcy as well as newspaper advertisements and contemporary accounts.0 This is the first reference work to cover all engravers working on copper in Britain and Ireland 1714-1820. Many biographical entries describe celebrated engravers producing "fine art" prints of paintings, which spread knowledge about living and dead artists. However, this book also builds up a more complex picture of the occupation of printmaking and includes engravers, many previously unresearched, who engraved ephemeral material, such as trade cards, bank notes, and satirical prints as well as the images that spread knowledge across literary, geographical, historical, topographical, medical and technical fields."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 769.92

The dispatches and letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson Nelson, Horatio Nelson,-Viscount, 1844 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:92Nelson(093.2)

Nelson and the age of fighting sail / by the editors of 'Horizon' magazine ; author Oliver Warner, in consultation with Chester W. Nimitz ; Illustrated with paintings [including portraits], drawings, letters, and maps of the period. Warner, Oliver. [1963]. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92NELSON

Textilia linnaena : Global 18th century textile traditions and trade /Viveka Hansen "This new monograph of 520 pages looks at how textile traditions spread throughout wider geographical areas to impact culture, economics, trade, textile dyes and social patterns in a world on the verge of becoming all the more globalised. The research project which has since 2006 been undertaken by the Textile Historian Viveka Hansen, was published in January 2017 as part of the IK Foundation's Mundus Linnµi series. A preface by the world leading Linnaeus' expert Gunnar Broberg, Professor emeritus and Editor for the Yearbook of the Swedish Linnaeus Society is introducing the volume."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382:677

Britain's naval route to greatness 1688-1815 / Jeremy Black. "The key importance of naval success in Britain's rise to being the leading power in the world was a hard-won process, one that linked fighting effectiveness to national support. Covering both these elements, Jeremy Black takes us from the successful Dutch invasion of 1688 to the long sequence of British successes in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Here we have battles and dockyards, the details of naval combat and the finer points of political support for building and sustaining the largest navy in the world. Thanks to the navy, Britain survived as an independent state and moulded the world."--Provided by the publisher 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.0094109033

The fearless Benjamin Lay : the Quaker dwarf who became the first revolutionary abolitionist /Marcus Rediker A biography of writer and activist Benjamin Lay, who was a prominent early campaigner for the end of enslavement in the United States in the early 18th century. The book gives an account of Lay's youth in Essex and London, his travels to Barbados as a sailor, where he became radicalised against the slave trade, and his subsequent lifelong work to draw public attention to its barbarism, influenced by his Quaker faith. The book also outlines Lay's impact and legacy in Quakerism and the abolitionist movement after his death. Includes 12 pages of colour plates. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92LAY

The mathematical science of Christopher Wren / J.A. Bennett. "Before he became a professional architect, Christopher Wren had a highly successful career as an astronomer - he was Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford University - and he was actively involved in many branches of the science or 'natural philosophy' of his day. This side of his career has, until now, been neglected by historians and biographers, and has been regarded as distinct and separate. This book contains the first detailed account of Wren's natural philosophy and, in addition, after showing that 'science' and 'architecture' were not then distinct in the way we understand them today, it presents a new perspective on Wren's architectural philosophy. The book will be of value to anyone interested in the history of science or of architecture."--Provided by the publisher. 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 509.2

Pirates of the slave trade : the Battle of Cape Lopez and the birth of an American institution /Angela C. Sutton. "In this landmark narrative history, historian Angela Sutton outlines the complex network of trade routes spanning the Atlantic Ocean trafficked by agents of empire, private merchants, and brutal pirates alike. Drawing from a wide range of primary historical sources, Sutton offers a new perspective on how a single battle played a pivotal role in reshaping the trade of enslaved people in ways that affect America to this day." 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 966.02

The dutch in the medway / by the author of "The camp of refuge." MacFarlane, Charles, 1845. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 820-3

Astronomische Beobachtungen auf der Sternwarte der kèoniglichen rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitèat zu Bonn / angestellt und herausgegeben von Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander Argelander, Fr.-(Friedrich), 1852 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 520.1:094

Versuche èuber die mittlere Dichtigkeit der Erde : mittelst der Drehwage /von F. Reich, Prof. der physik an der K. S. Bergakademie Reich, Ferdinand, 1838 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 523.31:094

Table des logarithmes des sinus et tangentes : de seconde en seconde pour les cinq premiers degrâes, de dix en dix secondes pour tous les degrâes du quarte de cercle. Callet, Franðcois, [1820?] • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 519.662(083.5):094

The material Atlantic : clothing, commerce, and colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650-1800 /Robert S. DuPlessis. "In this wide-ranging account, Robert DuPlessis examines globally sourced textiles that by dramatically altering consumer behavior helped create new economies and societies in the early modern world. This deeply researched history of cloth and clothing offers new insights into trade patterns, consumer demand, and sartorial cultures that emerged across the Atlantic world between the mid-seventeenth and late eighteenth centuries. As a result of commercial networks stretching across much of the planet, men and women across a wide spectrum of ethnicities, social standings, and occupations fashioned their garments from materials old and new, familiar and strange, and novel meaning came to be attached to different fabrics and modes of dress. The Material Atlantic illuminates crucial developments that characterized early modernity, from colonialism and slavery to economic innovation and new forms of social identity." --Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382:677

The East India Company in Persia : trade and cultural exchange in the eighteenth century /Peter Good. "In 1747, the city of Kerman in Persia burned amidst chaos, destruction and death perpetrated by the city's own overlord, Nader Shah. After the violent overthrow of the Safavid dynasty in 1722 and subsequent foreign invasions from all sides, Persia had been in constant turmoil. One well-appointed house that belonged to the East India Company had been saved from destruction by the ingenuity of a Company servant, Danvers Graves, and his knowledge of the Company's privileges in Persia. This book explores the lived experience of the Company and its trade in Persia and how it interacted with power structures and the local environment in a time of great upheaval in Persian history. Using East India Company records and other sources, it charts the role of the Navy and commercial fleet in the Gulf, trade agreements, and the experience of Company staff, British and non-British living in and navigating conditions in 18th-century Persia. By examining the social, commercial and diplomatic history of this relationship, this book creates a new paradigm for the study of Early Modern interactions in the Indian Ocean."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382.0941055

Pirate enlightenment, or, The real Libertalia / David Graeber. "The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. This was the Golden Age of Piracy - but it was also, argues anthropologist David Graeber, a brief window of radical democracy, as the pirate settlers attempted to apply the egalitarian principles of their ships to a new society on land. In this jewel of a book, Graeber offers a way to 'decolonize the Enlightenment', demonstrating how this mixed community experimented with an alternative vision of human freedom, far from that being formulated in the salons and coffee houses of Europe. Its actors were Malagasy women, philosopher kings and escaped slaves, exploring ideas that were ultimately to be put into practice by Western revolutionary regimes a century later. Pirate Enlightenment playfully dismantles the central myths of the Enlightenment. In their place comes a story about the magic, sea battles, purloined princesses, manhunts, make-believe kingdoms, fraudulent ambassadors, spies, jewel thieves, poisoners and devil worship that lie at the origins of modern freedom." 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4/5

The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, c. 1750-1820 / John McAleer, Christer Petley, editors. "This book foregrounds the role of the Royal Navy in creating the British Atlantic in the eighteenth century. It outlines the closely entwined connections between the nurturing of naval supremacy, the politics of commercial protection, and the development of national and imperial identities - crucial factors in the consolidation and transformation of the British Atlantic empire. The collection brings together scholars working on aspects of the Royal Navy and the British Atlantic in order to gain a better understanding of the ways that the Navy protected, facilitated, and shaped the British-Atlantic empire in the era of war, revolution, counter-revolution, and upheaval between the beginning of the Seven Years War and the end of the conflict with Napoleonic France. Contributions question the limits - conceptually and geographically - of that Atlantic world, suggesting that, by considering the Royal Navy and the British Atlantic together, we can gain greater insights into Britain's maritime history."--Provided by the publisher. [2016] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49(42:73)"1750/1820"

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