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Nelson's war / Peter Padfield. Padfield, Peter. 2000. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1793/1805"

Napoleon and the British Semmel, Stuart 2004 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942:02NAPOLEON

Resisting Napoleon : the British response to the threat of invasion /edited by Mark Philp. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.48"1797/1815"(42:44)

1812 : war with America /Jon Latimer. Latimer, Jon. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1812/1815"(42:73)

Campaign medals and orders of revolutionary and Napoleonic wars (1792-1815) / Jesâus Chapela Rey. Chapela Rey, Jesâus 2022 • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

British naval power in the East, 1794-1805 : the command of Admiral Peter Rainier /Peter A. Ward. "When war broke out with France in 1793, there immediately arose the threat of a renewed French challenge to British supremacy in India. This security problem was compounded in 1795 when the French overran the Netherlands and the extremely valuable Dutch trade routes and Dutch colonies, including the Cape of Good Hope and what is now Indonesia, fell under French control. The task of securing British interests in the East was a formidable one: the distances were huge, communication with London could take years, there were problems marshalling resources, and fine diplomatic skills were needed to keep independent rulers on the British side and to ensure full co-operation from the East India Company. The person charged with overseeing this formidable task was Admiral Peter Rainier (1741-1808), commander of the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean and the East from 1794 to 1805. This book discusses the enormous difficulties Rainier faced. It outlines his career, explaining how he carried out his role with exceptional skill; how he succeeded in securing British interests in the East - whilst avoiding the need to fight a major battle; how he enhanced Britain's commanding position at sea; and how, additionally, in co-operation with the Governor-General, Richard Wellesley, he further advanced Britain's position in India itself."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92RAINIER

Slavery and the British empire : from Africa to America /Kenneth Morgan. "Slavery and the British Empire provides a clear overview of the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, from the Cape Colony to the Caribbean. The book combines economic, social, political, cultural, and demographic history, with a particular focus on the Atlantic world and the plantations of North America and the West Indies from the mid-seventeenth century onwards. Kenneth Morgan analyses the distribution of slaves within the empire and how this changed over time; the world of merchants and planters; the organization and impact of the triangular slave trade; the work and culture of the enslaved; slave demography; health and family life; resistance and rebellions; the impact of the anti-slavery movement; and the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807 and of slavery itself in most of the British empire in 1834. As well as providing the ideal introduction to the history of British involvement in the slave trade, this book also shows just how deeply embedded slavery was in British domestic and imperial history - and just how long it took for British involvement in slavery to die, even after emancipation.."--Provided by the publisher. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/620941

Outlines of a plan for submitting to trial time-keepers : offered for sale to the public ... ca.1800] (London : T. Bensley). • • 1 copy available. 681.113.92:094

Unrolling time : Christian Huygens and the mathematization of nature /Joella G. Yoder. "This case study examines the interrelationship between mathematics and physics in the work of one of the major figures of the Scientific Revolution: the Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, Christian Huygens (1629?1695). Joella Yoder details the creative interaction that led Huygens to invent a pendulum clock that theoretically beat absolutely uniform time, to measure the constant of gravitational acceleration, to analyze centrifugal force, and to create the mathematical theory of evolutes. In the second half of the book, Dr Yoder places Huygens's work in the context of his time by examining his relationship with other scientists and the priority disputes that sometimes motivated his research. The role of evolutes in the history of mathematics is analyzed; the reception of Huygens's masterpiece, the Horologium Oscillatorium of 1673, is described; and finally, the part that Christian Huygens played in the rise of applied mathematics is addressed."--Back cover. 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92HUYGENS

The elements of Euclid explain'd, in a new, but most easie method : together with the use of every proposition through all parts of the mathematicks /cwritten in French, by that excellent mathematician F Claud Francis Milliet de Chales, of the Society of Jesus. Now made English, and a multitude of errors corrected, which had escap'd in the original. Dechales, Claude Francois Millet 1696. • • 1 copy available.

Census of portolan charts & atlases : as reported and listed by the noted scholars of the genre in their works ranging from 1897 to 2008 /Richard Pflederer. Pflederer, Richard L. 2009. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 912.43

Scientiae eclipsium commercio Sinarum illustratae : Investigationes ordinis eclipsium, ubi praecipue aliorum eclipticae periodi explicantur /novae inveniuntur a p. Melchiore a Briga e Societate Jesu. Briga, Melchior dalla, 1747. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 521.8:094

The rule and exercises of holy living : in which are described the means and instruments of obtaining every vertue, and the remedies gainst every vice, and considerations serving to the resisting all temptations :together with prayers containing the whole duty of a Christian, and the parts of devotion fitted to all occasions and furnished for all necessities /by Jer. Taylor. Taylor, Jeremy 1710. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:24

Artillery of the Napoleonic Wars : Artillery in siege, fortress and navy, 1792-1815 /Kevin F. Kiley. "Napoleon was an artilleryman before he was an emperor. He understood the power and effectiveness of cannon and their ability to pulverise defences, reduce fortresses and destroy attacks. In return, the guns won Napoleon battles. This impressive study chronicles the story of the guns and men during the twenty-three years of almost continuous warfare from 1792-1815: from the battlefields of continental Europe to the almost primitive terrain of North America and of the seas, lakes and rivers that connected them. Detailed technical information is accompanied by vivid descriptions which allow the reader to imagine what it must have been liked to manoeuvre and man the guns in a variety of situations - whether on the march or on the battlefield. Based on years of research into regulations of the period, eyewitness accounts of artillerymen and material culled from official reports, the scope and depth of material will satisfy the serious researcher, while the lively narrative will appeal to the casual reader."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1793/1815"(42:44)

The horrible peace : British veterans and the end of the Napoleonic Wars /Evan Wilson. "Few battles in world history provide a cleaner dividing line than Waterloo: before, there was Napoleon; after, there was the Pax Britannica. While Waterloo marked France's defeat and Britain's ascendance as an imperial power, the war was far from over for many soldiers and sailors, who were forced to contend with the lasting effects of battlefield trauma, the realities of an impossibly tight labor market, and growing social unrest. The Horrible Peace details a story of distress and discontent, of victory complicated by volcanism, and of the challenges facing Britain at the beginning of its victorious century. Examining the process of demobilization and its consequences for British society, Evan Wilson draws on archival research and veterans' memoirs to tell the story of this period through the experiences of veterans who struggled to reintegrate and soldiers and sailors who remained in service as Britain attempted to defend and expand the empire. Veterans were indeed central to Britain's experience of peace, as they took to the streets to protest the government's indifference to widespread unemployment and misery. The fighting did not stop at Waterloo"-- [2023] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.00941

Teorica della compensazione de pendoli / Paolo Volpicelli. Volpicelli, Paolo, 1860. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 681.11.032.111:094

Francis Frith's Victorian seaside : photographic memories. 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 711.455(210.5:42)"18"

Francis Frith's down the Severn / [compiled by] Clive Hardy. 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942.4:77.04(282.242.4)

Castaways adrift and abandoned : thrilling tales of the sea, volume three / "Seafaring before the twentieth century bristled with peril. The safe haven of your vessel might be destroyed by tempest or misadventure, your security scuttled. When you were cast away with only the resources of pluck, stamina, hope - and luck. Where you might end up on the expanse of endless sea facing the prospect of imminent dehydrated, starving death. Or on a safe but potentially forbidden - yet occassionally lush - outcrop of an isolated shore, amnogst which perils abounded accounts of courage and companionship. There are narratives of castaways abandoned to fend for themselves, and the ordeals they endured and survived and in remembrance of the seafarers who did not."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.45

HMS Beagle : the story of Darwin's ship /Keith Stewart Thomson. Thomson, Keith Stewart. 2003. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.45

Admiral Saumarez versus Napoleon : the Baltic, 1807-12 /Tim Voelcker. Voelcker, Tim 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1807/1812"(42:44)

The empire of the French : a chronology of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1792-1815 /by Brian Taylor. Taylor, Brian, 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 944.04

Nelson's battles : the art of victory in the age of sail Tracy, Nicholas 1996 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92Nelson

The armature of conquest : Spanish accounts of the discovery of America 1492-1589 "The discovery, exploration, and conquest of the New World is here imaginatively treated as a journey from fantasy to reality, from complicity to rejection, from mythification to criticism. Focusing on certain key firsthand narratives of the Spanish conquest, the author views various journals, letters, and other documents not merely as narratives of facts and events but as literary expressions of the dynamics of the writers' experience: recording the transformation of their perceptions of New World realities and showing the gradual development of a critical consciousness that questions their sense of identity and the validity of European cultural models. The author illuminates the conceptual and aesthetic requirements that mark the beginnings of a new literature in the making. Gradually, the aesthetic requirements and canons of Europe are left behind as this new literature begins to convey the new realities of colonial Spanish America that shape the complex poetics of Alonso de Ercilla's great epic poem La Araucana."--Provided by the publisher. 1992 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(46:7/8)"14/15"

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