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Victory in Tripoli : how America's war with the Barbary pirates established the U.S. Navy and built a nation /Joshua E. London. London, Joshua E. 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1799/1805"(64:73)

A world of empires : the Russian voyage of the frigate Pallada /Edyta M. Bojanowska. "Many people are familiar with American Commodore Matthew Perry's expedition to open trade relations with Japan in the early 1850s. Less well known is that on the heels of the Perry squadron followed a Russian expedition secretly on the same mission. Serving as secretary to the naval commander was novelist Ivan Goncharov, who turned his impressions into a book, The Frigate "Pallada", which became a bestseller in imperial Russia. In A World of Empires, Edyta Bojanowska uses Goncharov's fascinating travelogue as a window onto global imperial history in the mid-nineteenth century. Reflecting on encounters in southern Africa's Cape Colony, Dutch Java, Spanish Manila, Japan, and the British ports of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, Goncharov offers keen observations on imperial expansion, cooperation, and competition. Britain's global ascendancy leaves him in equal measures awed and resentful. In Southeast Asia, he recognizes an increasingly interlocking world in the vibrant trading hubs whose networks encircle the globe. Traveling overland back home, Goncharov presents Russia's colonizing rule in Siberia as a positive imperial model, contrasted with Western ones. Slow to be integrated into the standard narrative on European imperialism, Russia emerges here as an increasingly assertive empire, eager to position itself on the world stage among its American and European rivals and fully conversant with the ideologies of civilizing mission and race. Goncharov's gripping narrative offers a unique eyewitness account of empire in action, in which Bojanowska finds both a zeal to emulate European powers and a determination to define Russia against them."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(470+571)

His Majesty's Ship "Invincible" 1765-1801 : This volume contains the text of two talks. The first is a description of the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 from the Danish perspective given to members of the Nelson Sociey by Captain Finn Volke. A table presents details of both the British and Danish fleets, giving type and name of vessel and the number of guns, dead and wounded on each ship. Diagrams showing the relative positions of each fleet are also provided. The seond talk is an account of the loss of HMS Invincible, a Third Rate with 74 guns launched in 1765 and lost in 1801 off Happisburgh, Norfolk following her grounding on her way to join the Baltic expedition bound for Denmark. Four hundred men died from the crew of 600. This talk was given at the City Hall, Norwich on 14 February 1990. 1990 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82Invincible

The inshore squadron Kent, Alexander 1978 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-3

Projet de la mesure de la terre en Russie : lãu dans l'Assemblâee de l'Academie de Sciences de St. Petersbourg, le 21. Ianvier 1737 /par M. de L'Isle, premier professeur d'Astronomie. L'Isle, Joseph Nicolas de, 1737 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 521:094

Nelson's navy : English fighting ships 1793-1815 Davies, David 1996 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Nelson

Counterpoint to Trafalgar: The Anglo-Russian invasion of Naples 1805-1806 Flayhart III, William Henry 2004 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1805/1806"(450.721)

Richard Parkes Bonington : the complete paintings /Patrick Noon. Noon, Patrick J. c2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7Bonington

The great gamble Pope, Dudley 1972 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92Nelson

Fiddlers and Whores : the Candid Memoirs of a Surgeon in Nelson's Fleet /by James Lowry ; edited and introduced by John Millyard Lowry, James 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 82-94:949.2"1797/1804"

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich / Airy, G B. 1856. Airy, George Biddell,-Sir, 1856 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 520.1(421)

Tides and waves Airy, George Biddell,-Sir, 1842 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 551.466:094

Sechs borlesungen uber astronomie Airy, George Biddell,-Sir, 1852 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52

empire and other countries from the earliest accounts to the meeting of the Union Parliament in January 1801 Macpherson, David 1805 • BOOK • 4 copies available. 38

Navies of the Napoleonic era / Otto von Pivka. Pivka, Otto von, 1980. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1792/1815"

Greenwich Observatory / Airy, George. 1839. Airy, George Biddell,-Sir, 1839 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 520.1(421.6)

Description of the reflex zenith tube of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich Airy, George Biddell,-Sir, 1854 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 520.255

of the observations of stars made and reduced ... from 1765 to 1772, from 1779 to 1785, from 1796 to 1801 Maskelyne, Nevil, 1851 • RARE-FOLIO • 4 copies available. 094:520.1-13(421)

Trigonometry. From Encyclopedia Metropolitana Airy, George Biddell,-Sir, • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 51:094

phnfifche aftronomie Airy, George Biddell,-Sir, 1839 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52:094

Nelson's flagship at Copenhagen : HMS Elephant ; the men, the ship, the battle /[Written and comp. by Eric Tushingham and Clifford Mansfield] Tushingham, Eric. [2001]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1801"(42:489)

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

A catalogue of circumpolar stars ... reduced to January 1 1810 Groombridge, Stephen 1838 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 524.3(083.8)

The later correspondence of George III George [III,]-III,-King of Great Britain, 1966-1970 • BOOK • 5 copies available. 92George III(044)

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