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Black experience and the empire / Philip D. Morgan, editor and Sean Hawkins, editor. "This work explores the lives of people of sub-Saharan Africa and their descendants, how they were shaped by empire, and how they in turn influenced the empire in everything from material goods to cultural style. The black experience varied greatly across space and over time. Accordingly, thirteen substantive essays and a scene-setting introduction range from West Africa in the sixteenth century, through the history of the slave trade and slavery down to the 1830s, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century participation of blacks in the empire as workers, soldiers, members of colonial elites, intellectuals, athletes, and musicians. No people were more uprooted and dislocated; or traveled more within the empire; or created more of a trans-imperial culture. In the crucible of the British empire, blacks invented cultural mixes that were precursors to our modern selves - hybrid, fluid, ambiguous, and constantly in motion."--Provided by the publisher. 2004. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 941-44

Ideologies of Western Naval Power, c. 1500-1815 / edited by J.D. Davies, Alan James and Gijs Rommelse. "This ground-breaking book provides the first study of naval ideology, defined as the mass of cultural ideas and shared perspectives that, for early modern states and belief systems, justified the creation and use of naval forces. Sixteen scholars examine a wide range of themes over a wide time period and broad geographical range, embracing Britain, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Sweden, Russia, Venice and the United States, along with the "extra-national" polities of piracy, neutrality, and international Calvinism. This volume provides important and often provocative new insights into both the growth of western naval power and important elements of political, cultural and religious history."-- 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359/.030940903

Children at sea : lives shaped by the waves /Vyvyen Brendon. "Children at sea faced even more drastic separations from loved ones than those sent 'home' from India or those packed off to English boarding schools at the age of seven, the subjects of Vyvyen Brendon's previous books. Captured slaves, child migrants and transported convicts faced an ocean passage leading nearly always to life-long exile in distant lands. Boys apprenticed as merchant seamen, or enlisted as powder monkeys, or signed on as midshipmen, usually progressed to a nautical career fraught with danger and broken only by fleeting periods of home leave. Solitary among numbers, as Admiral Collingwood described himself, they could be not just physically at risk but psychologically adrift - at sea in more ways than one. Rather than abandoning seaborne children as they approached adulthood, therefore, Vyvyen follows whole lives shaped by the waves. She focusses on eight central characters: a slave captured in Africa, a convict girl transported to Australia, a Barnardo's lass sent as a migrant to Canada, a foundling brought up in Coram's Hospital who ran away to sea, and four youths from contrasting backgrounds despatched to serve as midshipmen. Their social origins as well as their maritime ventures are revealed through a rich variety of original source material discovered in scattered archives. These brine-encrusted lives are resurrected both for their intrinsic interest and because they speak for thousands of children, cast off alone to face storms and calms, excitement and monotony, fellowship and loneliness, kindness and abuse, sea-sickness and ozone breezes, loss and hope. This book recounts stories never before told, stories that might otherwise have sunk without trace like so much juvenile flotsam. They are sometimes inspiring, sometimes heart-rending and always compelling."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.45

The British transatlantic slave trade A four-volume work covering the history of the British Transatlantic slave trade and including relevant texts in facsimile. VOLUME 1 focuses on the operation of the slave trade in Africa featuring John Hawkins, A true declaration of the troublesome voyadge of M. John Hawkins to the parties of Guynea and the west Indies, in the yeares of our Lord 1567 and 1568 (1569); John Matthews, A Voyage to the River Sierra-Leone (1788); John Adams, Sketches taken during Ten Voyages to Africa, between the Years 1786 and 1800 (1821) and Gomer Williams, History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque, with an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade (excerpt) (1897). VOLUME 2 features texts connected with the largest and most significant of the English slavetrading companies, the Royal African Company established in 1672. The reprinted texts highlight the changing fortunes of the company, the details of the charter under which it traded, the financial pressures of maintaining fortified establishments in west Africa, the rivalry with other African trading companies of European powers, the increasing presence of private merchants in the slave trade and the role of the company in maintaining British imperial and naval power. VOLUME 3 concentrates on the early days of the abolition movement in Britain, reprinting texts from the late 1780s. These include papers by Clarkson who toured Great Britain gathering data and evidence on the conduct of the slave trade, other contemporary observations of slave conditions, and Thomas Cooper's Letters on the Slave Trade which provide estimates of the volume of the slave traffic. VOLUME 4 reprints a representative sample of texts illustrating the defensive reasoning employed by pro-slavery campaigners based on mercantilism, imperialism, constitutionalism and even humanitarianism. The texts provide an insight into attitudes toward race, work and power in the colonies and Hanoverian Britain. Each volume is supported by a detailed bibliography. April 2003 • BOOK • 4 copies available. 326.1(261)

The great sea : a human history of the Mediterranean /David Abulafia. "Situated at the intersection of Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millenia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the sea itself: its practical importance for transport and sustenance; its dynamic role in the rise and fall of empires; and the remarkable cast of characters--sailors, merchants, migrants, pirates, pilgrims--who have crossed and recrossed it."--Publisher's description. 2011. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 94(262)

Britain's oceanic empire : Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, c. 1550-1850 /edited by H.V. Bowen, Elizabeth Mancke, and John G. Reid. "This pioneering comparative study of British imperialism in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds draws on the perspectives of British newcomers overseas and their native hosts, metropolitan officials and corporate enterprises, migrants and settlers. Leading scholars examine the divergences and commonalities in the legal and economic regimes that allowed Britain to project imperium across the globe. They explore the nature of sovereignty and law, governance and regulation, diplomacy, military relations and commerce, shedding new light on the processes of expansion that influenced the making of empire. While acknowledging the distinctions and divergences in imperial endeavours in Asia and the Americas - not least in terms of the size of indigenous populations, technical and cultural differences, and approaches to indigenous polities - this book argues that these differences must be seen in the context of what Britons overseas shared, including constitutional principles, claims of sovereignty, disciplinary regimes and military attitudes"-- 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.3/.4(42)"15/18"

Spreading canvas : eighteenth-century British marine painting /edited by Eleanor Hughes. "Spreading Canvas takes a close look at the tradition of marine painting that flourished in 18th-century Britain. Drawing primarily on the extensive collections of the Yale Center for British Art and the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, this publication shows how the genre corresponded with Britain's growing imperial power and celebrated its increasing military presence on the seas, representing the subject matter in a way that was both documentary and sublime. Works by leading purveyors of the style, including Peter Monamy, Samuel Scott, Dominic Serres, and Nicholas Pocock, are featured alongside sketches, letters, and other ephemera that help frame the political and geographic significance of these inspiring views, while also establishing the painters' relationships to concurrent metropolitan art cultures. This survey, featuring a wealth of beautifully reproduced images, demonstrates marine painting's overarching relevance to British culture of the era."--Provided by publisher. 2016 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 75.047(26:42)

Art in Oceania : a new history /Peter Brunt ... [et al.] ; edited by Peter Brunt and Nicholas Thomas, assisted by Stella Ramage. "The arts of Oceania are astonishing: great statues, daunting tattoos, dynamic carving, dazzling woven and painted fabrics, intricately carved weapons, and a bewildering variety of ornaments, ritual objects, and utilitarian but beautiful things. This landmark book breaks new ground by setting the art of Oceania in its full historical context and capturing an up-to-date understanding of the field. From archaeological findings of prehistoric art to the impact of pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial historical processes, it explores influences such as migration, trade, missionaries, pacification, tourism, nationalism and contemporary market factors, offering abundant new interpretations and addressing significant gaps in other publications. Factors that have been largely neglected until now, including the role of museums, the significance of colonial photography, indigenous modernisms and contemporary Pacific art, are covered alongside the familiar canon. This beautifully illustrated volume will appeal to general readers interested in world art, collectors, university students, scholars and museum professionals in the field."--Provided by the publisher. 2012. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 7(9)

Reappraisals of British colonisation in Atlantic Canada, 1700-1930 / edited by S. Karly Kehoe and Michael E. Vance. "Investigates the contested legacies of British colonisation on Canada's Atlantic coast. Engages with the legacy of British colonisation in Atlantic Canada across three sections. Situates the Scottish experience within process of British colonisation, challenging the tendency to omit the Scots from critical explorations of the colonisation process in this region. Exposes the reader to a range of experiences from across the four Atlantic Provinces, which will encourage more exciting new research. Chapters are grouped in three main sections: Dispossession and Settlement; Religion and Identity; Reappraising Memory. This collection offers new perspectives on the legacy of British colonisation by concentrating on Atlantic Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island), a region that was pivotal to safeguarding Britain's imperial ambitions, between 1750 and 1930. New and established researchers from Canada, Scotland and the United States engage with the core themes of migration, dispossession, religion, identity, and commemoration in a way that diverges markedly from existing scholarship. The research shines much-needed light on groups traditionally excluded from Britain's broader imperial narrative, highlighting the indigenous experience and the presence and agency of slaves, free people of colour and religious minorities"--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 971.502

The pursuit of sodomy : male homosexuality in Renaissance and enlightenment Europe /Kent Gerard, Gert Hekma, editors. "Historians Kent Gerard and Gert Hekma make available - for the first time to an English-speaking audience - the best, most recent work on the history of male homosexuality in Early Modern Europe. The role of the male homosexual - during the pivotal era of 1400 to 1800 - is thoroughly explored. A wide-ranging group of authors offers relevant and fascinating material on sexual history and sexuality, in general, and on homosexuality and European history, in particular"--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.76/62/094

Acta cartographica 1967-1975 • BOOK • 22 copies available. 528.9(04)

Sâeances des âecoles normales / recueillies par des stâenographes et revues par les professeurs. âEcole normale supâerieure (France) 1800-1801. • RARE-BOOK • 13 copies available. 378.6(44):094

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