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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
The complete East-India pilot : or oriental navigator : volume 1 Laurie, Robert 1800 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(261:264:267)"18"
The Nelson encyclopaedia / Colin White. White, Colin, 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92NELSON(031)
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"
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
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
Scientific correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1765-1820 / edited by Neil Chambers. The letters of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. Banks accompanied Captain James Cook on his first voyage on the Endeavour, was President of the Royal Society for over 40 years and advised King George III on the establishment of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, sending botanists around the world to collect specimens. These 2,215 letters cover a broad range of scientific subjects and are published in six volumes. The letters are arranged chronologically, each with a serial number which can be used to find letters to or from a particular correspondent using the calendar of correspondence and index to the voumes both published in volume 6. Volume 1 includes a biography of Banks. 2007. • BOOK • 6 copies available. 92:5
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)
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
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.
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
Britain and the China trade 1635-1842 This multi-volume work covers Britain's commercial operations in India from 1695-1842, with particular focus on meetings between British diplomats and Chinese officials in 1793 and 1816. It is designed to combine early works on the subject and significant relevant primary sources for reference use. The first five volumes consist of Hosea Ballou Morse's Chronicles of the East India Company Trading to China, 1635-1834, included for its significant transcription work of records from the India Office. Volume VI is a reprint of The Crucial Years of Early Anglo-Chinese relations, 1750-1800 by E H Pritchard, a later study that used Morse's statistics. Volume IX is Michael Greenberg's British Trade and the Opening of China 1800-42. The remaining volumes are a collection of relevant primary sources. Volumes VII and VIII examine the Macartney embassy of 1792 from different angles; Volume VII contains instructions issued to Macartney by the East India Company; Volume VIII is Macartney's private journal of the embassy. Finally, Volume X is Notes of Proceedings and Occurences During the British embassy to Pekin in 1816 by Sir George Thomas Staunton. 2000 • BOOK • 10 copies available. 382(42:51)"1635/1842"
Supplement a l'optique de Smith, contenant une theorie generale des instrumens de dioptrique Smith, R 1800 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 535:094