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Exodus : the story of the Atlantic ferry and the great migration to North America /by David Hollett. "Between the years 1830 and 1930 emigration from Europe to North America took the form of a mass exodus. During these years it is estimated that about 40 million people sailed from Britain, Ireland and Continental Europe for the United States, Canada, and other distant lands. Quite remarkably about 9 million of this number sailed from Liverpool, then the second largest port in Britain and the largest emigration port in the world. And the majority of these intrepid travellers headed for the 'New World' of North America, courageously opting for a one-way passage into the unknown. This work outlines the history of Liverpool and the operation of the 'Atlantic Ferry', at first worked by largely American owned packet ships and later by great ocean liners. Known collectively as 'The Liners of Liverpool' they were mainly owned by world famous shipping enterprises such as Cunard, the Collins Line, the Inman Line, the National Line, the Guion Line and the White Star Line. Mention is also made of the competition these Liverpool-based Lines had to contend with from Continental Lines, such as North German Lloyd and Compagnie Generale Transatlantique. The tragic story of the Irish and Scottish clearances and evictions, leading to disproportionately large emigrations from these troubled lands receive appropriate attention. There are also chapters on the persecution of Jews, notably in Tsarist Russia, prompting massemigration and the well-organised Mormon Emigration to the Great Salt Lake Valley. Shipwrecks and insurance scams; notable friends of the emigrants; Joseph Arch and his Agricultural Emigration; The American and Canadian Railroads; the 'Gold-Rush' adventurers, ongoing emigration statistics, and many other related subjects all get a mention in this carefully researched and profusely illustrated book. Throughout this work the port of Liverpool itself receives much attention and notably so in the chapters on the harsh reality of working-class life in the port in the 19th century; the coming of the Big Ships; the great Liners and Liverpool in the 1880s, and Shipping, Emigration and Industry in the port in the first decades of the 20th Century. Appropriately, one of the concluding chapters is dedicated to the loss of the White Star liner Titanic on the 15th April, 1912, after famously hitting an iceberg on her maiden voyage to America, an event that will be commemorated in Liverpool this year to mark the centenary of this great disaster."--Provided by the publisher. 2012. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 325.2(4:73)"18/19"

Waves across the south : a new history of revolution and empire /Sujit Sivasundaram. "A bracingly fresh account of the origins of the British empire told from the waters of the global South. After revolutions in America and France, a wave of tumult coursed the globe from 1790 to 1850. In this major reassessment, Cambridge historian Sujit Sivasundaram, turns our understanding of this 'age of revolutions' inside out. He approaches the era not primarily from the perspective of European colonial forces, but from indigenous peoples in the Indian and Pacific Oceans as they faced empire, engaged in vibrant public debate and undertook a visionary enagement with modernity and revolutionary change. Waves Across the South brings together Sivasundaram;s work in far-flung archives across the world and the best new academic research. Too often, history is told from the northern hemisphere, with modernity, knowledge, selfhood and politics moving from the Euro-Atlantic to influence the rest of the word. Waves Across the South tells the story from the viewpoint of Aboriginal Australians and Parsis, Mauritians and Malays. It shows how people of colour asserted their place and their future as the British empire expanded, overtaking the French and Dutch to establish global supremacy. This is a new history that is fitting for our times. It charts how colonisation brought with it tragic limitations to liberty, humanity and equality in southern hemisphere communities. Waves Across the South insists, too, on the political significance of the physical environment: the Bay of Bengal and the Tasman Sea were the essential contexts for the crashing waves of revolution, empire and counter-revoltuion. Naval war, imperial rivalry and oceanic trade had their parts to play, but so did hope, false promise, rebellion, knowledge and the pursuit of modernity. A compulsive story full of cultural depth and range, this is a world history that speaks to the urgent concerns of today. Only when looking from the water can we fully understand where we are now."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 909/.09724

Arms and armament : an historical survey of the weapons of the British Army Ffoulkes, Charles 1945 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.351:623.4

The poetical works of Sir Samuel Garth : with the life of the author Garth, Samuel, Sir 1800 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-1

A collection of papers on naval architecture : originally communicated through the channel of the wrapper of the European Magazine 1800 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:629.12

A general map of the empire of Germany, Holland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the Grisons, Italy, Sicily, Corsica, and Sardinia Chauchard, Captain 1800 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(4)"18"

Commercial agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa / edited by Robin Law, Suzanne Schwarz and Silke Strickrodt. "Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African history, that of commercial agriculture and its relationship to slavery. This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery within Africa itself, from the beginnings of European maritime trade in the fifteenth century to the early stages of colonial rule in the twentieth century. From the outset, the export of agricultural produce from Africa represented a potential alternative to the slave trade: although the predominant trend was to transport enslaved Africans to the Americas to cultivate crops, there was recurrent interest in the possibility of establishing plantations in Africa to produce such crops, or to purchase them from independent African producers. This idea gained greater currency in the context of the movement for the abolition of the slave trade from the late eighteenth century onwards, when the promotion of commercial agriculture in Africa was seen as a means of suppressing the slave trade. At the same time, the slave trade itself stimulated commercial agriculture in Africa, to supply provisions for slave-ships in the Middle Passage. Commercial agriculture was also linked to slavery within Africa, since slaves were widely employed there in agricultural production. Although Abolitionists hoped that production of export crops in Africa would be based on free labour, in practice it often employed enslaved labour, so that slavery in Africa persisted into the colonial period."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 338.43:326.1(66)

American prisoners of war held at Bermuda, Cape of Good Hope, and Jamaica during the War of 1812 / transcribed by Harrison Scott Baker II. "This work was transcribed from records of the British Admiralty pertaining to American prisoners of war held at Bermuda, Cape of Good Hope and Jamaica during the War of 1812. Those interned included American marines, merchantmen and sailors."--Provided by the publisher. 2007. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 327.09/04

The battle of Lissa, 1866 : how the Industrial Revolution changed the face of naval warfare /Quintin Barry. "It has often been said that, so slow was the process of change in naval warfare, Sir Francis Drake would if he was transported to the quarterdeck of the Victory not feel out of place. Half a century on from the end of the Napoleonic wars, a total transformation had taken place in every aspect of naval warfare. As a result of the Industrial Revolution the ships that fought the battle of Lissa would have been unrecognisable to Drake. The principal changes had been the introduction of steam power, of shell guns and of armour plating. The use of steam engines to power warships was substantially assisted by the invention of the screw propeller which quickly made paddle steamers obsolete. And the effect of shell guns was hugely increased by the development of rifled ordnance. The Industrial Revolution came first to Britain, and it was here that the earliest experiments were made with steam engines as a vessel's motive power. The replacement wood by iron as a shipbuilding material also came slowly, and both innovations faced considerable resistance from conservative opinion. Once the Industrial Revolution spread through mainland Europe, it was often in France that important breakthroughs were made, though contrary to the opinion of earlier historians, the British Admiralty kept a close watch on technological progress. The outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861 powerfully accelerated developments in all aspects of warship design. As other navies adopted the latest technology it became apparent that the tactics of naval warfare must also change. In 1866 Italy, in alliance with Prussia, went to war against Austria, having built up a substantial fleet of ironclads. The Austrians, too, had also acquired a number of ironclads. The two fleets faced each other in a campaign in the Adriatic, in which the Italian fleet was led by Admiral Carlo Persano and that of Austria by Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff. On July 20, 1866 they met in what was to be the first fleet action of the new age, and the encounter ended in a decisive victory for the Austrian fleet. Much of the blame for the Italian defeat was laid at Persano's door, while his opponent became a national hero. This book is the first comprehensive account of the campaign of Lissa in the English language for more than a century. It explores the progress of naval shipbuilding and tactics in the period leading up to 1866, together with the development of the Italian and Austrian navies."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 945/.084

Tables for reducing lunar observations and obviating the difficulties in finding the longitude Garrard, William 1800 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:523.34-13(083.4)

The oriental geography of Ebn Haukal : an Arabian traveller of the tenth century Haukal, Ebn 1800 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:915/916"09"

The elements and practice of rigging, seamanship and naval tactics... (1821) Steel, David, 1800 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:629.12.014.2

The oriental pilot : or East-India directory Laurie, Robert 1800 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(261:264:267)"18"

English Ceramic Circle Transactions 1978-date incomplete run • JOURNAL • 1 copy available.

Journal of the bye-laws and proceedings of the Society of Masters of Ships, associated at the port of London... Society of Masters of Ships 1800 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:061.238(093.32)

Suspiria oceani : a monody on the death of Richard Earl Howe, KG, Admiral of the Fleet, and General of His Majesty's Marine Forces Trotter, Thomas, 1800 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 820-14

A small treatise on astronomy, and natural philosophy, illustrated by Mr LeSage's astronomical machine : a prospectus 1800? • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094 <EXTI Philosophical Tracts:529.78

Sailing directions for the Kattegat to be used with the new improved chart ... published from the Royal Danish Marine Archives ... Lovenorn, P de 1800 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.83(261.3)

Description of an engine for dividing strait lines on mathematical instruments / by J. Ramsden. Ramsden, J.-(Jesse), 1779 printing (London : printed by William Richardson). • RARE-PAMPH • 3 copies available. 094:681.2.085

Supplement a l'optique de Smith, contenant une theorie generale des instrumens de dioptrique Smith, R 1800 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 535:094

The Milne papers : the papers of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milne, Bt., K.C.B. (1806-1896) /edited by John Beeler. Milne, Alexander, 2004 : PBF5461 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 359/.0092

Additional verses to God Save the King K, E C ca1800 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:784.7

The geographical system of Herodotus, examined and explained by a comparison with those of other ancient authors and with modern geography ... Rennell, James 1800 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Herodotus

In the kingdom of ice : the grand and terrible polar voyage of the USS Jeannette /Hampton Sides. In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress of ice rimming the northern oceans, although theories abounded. The foremost cartographer in the world, a German named August Petermann, believed that warm currents sustained a verdant island at the top of the world. National glory would fall to whoever could plant his flag upon its shores. James Gordon Bennett, the eccentric and stupendously wealthy owner of The New York Herald, had recently captured the world's attention by dispatching Stanley to Africa to find Dr. Livingstone. Now he was keen to re-create that sensation on an even more epic scale. So he funded an official U.S. naval expedition to reach the Pole, choosing as its captain a young officer named George Washington De Long, who had gained fame for a rescue operation off the coast of Greenland. De Long led a team of 32 men deep into uncharted Arctic waters, carrying the aspirations of a young country burning to become a world power. On July 8, 1879, the USS Jeannette set sail from San Francisco to cheering crowds in the grip of "Arctic Fever." The ship sailed into uncharted seas, but soon was trapped in pack ice. Two years into the harrowing voyage, the hull was breached. Amid the rush of water and the shrieks of breaking wooden boards, the crew abandoned the ship. Less than an hour later, the Jeannette sank to the bottom, and the men found themselves marooned a thousand miles north of Siberia with only the barest supplies. Thus began their long march across the endless ice -- a frozen hell in the most lonesome corner of the world. Facing everything from snow blindness and polar bears to ferocious storms and frosty labyrinths, the expedition battled madness and starvation as they desperately strove for survival. [2014]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3JEANNETTE

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