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US Navy armored cruisers 1890-1933 / Brian Lane Herder ; illustrated by Paul Wright. "At the dawn of the "Steel Navy" era, the rapidly expanding US Navy's fleet of capital ships consisted not only of battleships but also armored cruisers. The forerunner of the battlecruiser, these warships sacrificed the battleship's firepower and protection for superior speed and range, but were controversial. An armoured cruiser was as large and expensive as a battleship, but were not able to fight one. In this book, naval expert Brian Lane Herder explains that despite their great expense, armoured cruisers' tactical roles beyond commerce raiding and protection were limited. However, they had interesting careers: armoured cruisers fought in the Spanish-American War, and after 1906, some replaced US battleships in the Pacific, functioning as oversized gunboats. Two conducted naval aviation experiments, and after World War I, surviving US armoured cruisers represented the US Navy on the Asiatic station. Illustrated throughout with archive photographs and striking orginal artwork, this is a concisely detailed history of some of the US Navy's most controversial and intriguing warships."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.8353097309045

A great and rising nation : naval exploration and global empire in the early US Republic /Michael A. Verney. "Conventional wisdom holds that, until the Spanish-American War of 1898, the United States was a feeble player on the world stage, with an international presence rooted in commerce rather than military might. Michael A. Verney's A Great and Rising Nation flips this notion on its head, arguing that early US naval expeditions, often characterized as merely scientific, were in fact deeply imperialist. Circling the globe from the Mediterranean to South America and the Arctic, these voyages reflected the diverse imperial aspirations of the new republic, including commercial dominance in the Pacific World, religious empire in the Holy Land, proslavery expansion in South America, and diplomatic prestige in Europe. As Verney makes clear, the United States had global imperial aspirations far earlier than is commonly thought."-- 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.00973

British warships in the age of sail, 1793-1817 : design, construction, careers and fates /Rif Winfield. Winfield, Rif. 2008. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.82(42)"1793/1817"

Discovery, innovation, and the Victorian admiralty : paper navigators /Erika Behrisch. "This book examines the British Admiralty's engagement with science and technological innovation in the nineteenth century. It is a book about people, and gross misunderstanding, about the dreams and disappointments of scientific workers and inventors in relation to the administrators who adjudicated their requests for support, and about the power of paper to escalate arguments, reduce opinions, and frustrate hopes. From instructions for naval surveying to debates about rewards to civilians for inventions, Paper Navigators puts a wide range of primary sources in the context of public debates and explores the British Admiralty's engagement with, decision-making around, and management of questions of value, support, and funding with citizen inventors, the broader public, and their own employees. Concentrating on the Admiralty's private, internal correspondence to explore these themes, it offers a fresh perspective on the Victorian Navy's history of innovation and exploration and is a novel addition to literature on the history of science in the nineteenth century." 2022 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.00941

Knowledge and colonialism : eighteenth-century travellers in South Africa /by Siegfried Huigen. Huigen, Siegfried 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.3/.4(83)"17"

The last slave ships : New York and the end of the middle passage /John Harris. "Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed in the early nineteenth century by every major slave trading nation, merchants based in the United States were still sending hundreds of illegal slave ships from American ports to the African coast. The key instigators were slave traders who moved to New York City after the shuttering of the massive illegal slave trade to Brazil in 1850. These traffickers were determined to make Lower Manhattan a key hub in the illegal slave trade to Cuba. In conjunction with allies in Africa and Cuba, they ensnared around two hundred thousand African men, women, and children during the 1850s and 1860s. John Harris explores how the U.S. government went from ignoring, and even abetting, this illegal trade to helping to shut it down completely in 1867." 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 974.7/103

Lame captains and left-handed admirals : amputee officers in Nelson's Navy /Teresa Michals. Michals, Teresa, 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.2/745092241

Britannia's palette : the arts of naval victory /Nicholas Tracy. Tracy, Nicholas, c2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.044(41)

Gentlemen's dress accessories / E. Eckstein, J. and G. Firkins. "In the mid-nineteenth century, men wished to balance the sobriety of their clothing: if fashion dictated drab coloring, they could add ornament. Hence gentlemen came to display a selection of male jewellery, including the watch chain or 'albert' with its attachments - watch-keys, seals, fobs, compasses, pencils, vestas and the like. Studs, cravat pins, flower holders, cuff-links and special dress buttons for waistcoats were also widely used. Many of the items described and illustrated here are highly collectible and can still be worn today, often providing a stimulating conversion point."--Provided by the publisher. 2000. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 391.1

Folkestone for the continent, 1843-2001 / John Hendy. "This book covers the entire history of the Kentish port of Folkestone from its inception in the early years of the nineteenth century, its purchase by the South Eastern Railway and the commencement of a tidal steamer service to Boulogne in 1843. Although the history of the port will for ever be linked with Boulogne, other services were operated to Flushing, Ostend, Dunkirk and Calais and are also covered. The coming of the vehicle ferry service in 1972 greatly improved the port's fortunes but after a disastrous first year's trading, the Swedish Stena Line axed the traditional link at the close of 1991. Thereafter Hoverspeed and a number of purely freight operators lingered for another ten years before final closure. The book is enhanced by a wealth of historical and more recent photographs showing the port and its ferries. Fleet list, traffic statistics and maps of the port at different stages of its development."--Provided by the publisher. [2014]. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 627.2(422.3)

Les longitudes par la mesure du temps, ou, Mâethode pour dâeterminer les longitudes en mer : avec le secours des horloges marines. Suivie du Recueil des tables nâecessaires au pilote pour râeduire les observations relatives áa la longitude & áa la latitude /par M. Ferdinand Berthoud Berthoud, Ferdinand 1775 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 528.282:094

Cannibals and carnage : thrilling tales of the sea, volume one/Graham Faiella. "In the nineteenth century true stories of cannibal tribes massacring white traders (and vice versa) and missionaries fed the morbid appetites of Europeans, North Americans and colonials. Accounts of cannibalism committed by seafarers on their dead shipmates quickened the pulses of landfolk even more, and pricked their moral disquiet. Acts of desperate men committing unspeakable atrocities. The warring frenzy of cannibal headhunters and their gruesome feasting. Such was the stuff of real-life 'sixpenny romances', rich in human butchery and garnished with treachery and terror. The more atrocious the atrocities, the more exotic the locations; the more sensational the narratives, the greater was the thrall of these thrilling tales of the sea."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. Misery, mutiny and menace: Thrilling tales of the sea, volume two.

William Schaw Lindsay : Victorian entrepreneur /Bill Lindsay Lindsay, Bill. 2023. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 387.50941

Ci, ktâorzy na statkach ruszyli na morze... = They that go down to the sea in ships... /edited by Moniki Jankiewicz-Brzostowskiej Jankiewicz-Brzostowskiej, Moniki 2024. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 75.047(492)

Logarithms of sines and tangents for every second, by Robert Shortrede, F.R.A.S., Major-General, Late of Bombay army, H.E.I.C.S. ; with additional preface, and examples, by Major-General Hannyngton, F.I.A. & F.S.S. Shortrede, Robert, 1873. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 519.662(083.5):094

A cultural history of the sea in the age of empire / edited by Margaret Cohen. "Throughout history, how has the sea served as a site for cross-cultural exchange, trade and migration? As historians, how do the fields of naval history, maritime history and oceanic history intersect? The six volumes cover: 1. Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE); 2. Medieval Age (800 - 1450); 3. Renaissance (1450 - 1650); 4. Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6 Global Age (1920 - 2000+)."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 209.6

A cultural history of the sea in the age of enlightenment / edited by Jonathan Lamb. "Throughout history, how has the sea served as a site for cross-cultural exchange, trade and migration? As historians, how do the fields of naval history, maritime history and oceanic history intersect? The six volumes cover: 1. Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE); 2. Medieval Age (800 - 1450); 3. Renaissance (1450 - 1650); 4. Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6 Global Age (1920 - 2000+)."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 209.5

A cultural history of the sea in antiquity / edited by Marie-Claire Beaulieu. "Throughout history, how has the sea served as a site for cross-cultural exchange, trade and migration? As historians, how do the fields of naval history, maritime history and oceanic history intersect? The six volumes cover: 1. Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE); 2. Medieval Age (800 - 1450); 3. Renaissance (1450 - 1650); 4. Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6 Global Age (1920 - 2000+)."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 209.3

A cultural history of the sea in the medieval age / edited by Elizabeth Lambourn. "Throughout history, how has the sea served as a site for cross-cultural exchange, trade and migration? As historians, how do the fields of naval history, maritime history and oceanic history intersect? The six volumes cover: 1. Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE); 2. Medieval Age (800 - 1450); 3. Renaissance (1450 - 1650); 4. Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6 Global Age (1920 - 2000+)."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 209.4

Description of an engine for dividing mathematical instruments / by J. Ramsden. Ramsden, J.-(Jesse), 1777 printing (London : printed by William Richardson). • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 681.09:094

Copies of original letters from the army of General Bonaparte in Egypt, intercepted by the fleet under the command of Admiral Lord Nelson : with an English translation : in three parts France.-Armâee 1798-1800 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.48"1798"(62)

Naval engagements : patriotism, cultural politics, and the Royal Navy, 1793-1815 /Timothy Jenks. Jenks, Timothy. c2006. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.49"1793/1815"

Convicts in the colonies : transportation tales from Britain to Australia /Lucy Williams. "In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported 'beyond the seas.' These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in the empire's most remote colony: Australia. Through vivid real-life case studies and famous tales of the exceptional and extraordinary, Convicts in the Colonies narrates the history of convict transportation to Australia, from the first to the final fleet. Using the latest original research, Convicts in the Colonies reveals a fascinating century-long history of British convicts unlike any other. Covering everything from crime and sentencing in Britain and the perilous voyage to Australia, to life in each of the three main penal colonies , New South Wales, Van Diemenis Land, and Western Australiaii this book charts the lives and experiences of the men and women who crossed the world and underwent one of the most extraordinary punishment in history."--Publisher's description. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.51(94)

Race and power in British India : Anglo-Indians, class and identity in the nineteenth century /Valerie Anderson. "By the nineteenth century the British had ruled India for over a hundred years, and had consolidated their power over the sub-continent. Until 1858, when Queen Victoria assumed sovereignty following the Indian Rebellion, the country was run by the East India Company - by this time a hybrid of state and commercial enterprises and eloquently and fiercely attacked as intrinsically immoral and dangerous by Edmund Burke in the late 1700s. Seeking to go beyond the statutes and ceremony, and show the reality of the interactions between rulers and ruled on a local level, this book looks at one of the most interesting phenomena of British India - the 'Eurasians'. The adventurers of the early years of Indian occupation arrived alone, and in taking 'native' mistresses and wives, created a race of administrators who were 'others' to both the native population and the British ruling class. These Anglo-Indian people existed in the zone between the colonizer and the colonized, and their history provides a wonderfully rich source for understanding Indian social history, race and colonial hegemony."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 954.00491411

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