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Black crown : Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's forgotten kingdom /Paul Clammer. "How did a man born enslaved on a plantation triumph over Napoleon's invading troops and become king of the first free black nation in the Americas? This is the forgotten, remarkable story of Henry Christophe. Christophe fought as a child soldier in the American War of Independence, before serving in the Haitian Revolution as one of Toussaint Louverture's top generals. Following Haitian independence, Christophe crowned himself King Henry I. His attempts to build a modern black state won the support of leading British abolitionists - but his ambition helped to plunge his country into civil war. Christophe saw himself as an Enlightenment ruler, and his kingdom produced great literary works, epic fortresses and opulent palaces. He was a proud anti-imperialist and fought off French plots against him. Yet the Haitian people chafed under his authoritarian rule. Today, all that remains is Christophe's mountaintop Citadelle, Haiti's sole World Heritage site - a monument to a revolutionary black monarchy, in a world of empire and slavery."--Provided by the publisher. 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 972.94/04092
Cul de Sac : patrimony, capitalism, and slavery in French Saint-Domingue /Paul Cheney. "In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory of one plantation owned by the Ferron de la Ferronnayses, a family of Breton nobles, draws on remarkable archival finds to show that despite the wealth such plantations produced, they operated in a context of social, political, and environmental fragility that left them weak and crisis prone. Focusing on correspondence between the Ferronnayses and their plantation managers, 'Cul de Sac' proposes that the Caribbean plantation system, with its reliance on factory-like production processes and highly integrated markets, was a particularly modern expression of eighteenth-century capitalism. But it rested on a foundation of economic and political traditionalism that stymied growth and adaptation. The result was a system heading toward collapse as planters, facing a series of larger crises in the French empire, vainly attempted to rein in the inherent violence and instability of the slave society they had built. In recovering the lost world of the French Antillean plantation, 'Cul de Sac' ultimately reveals how the capitalism of the plantation complex persisted not as a dynamic source of progress, but from the inertia of a degenerate system headed down an economic and ideological dead end."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382:664.1
Dana's seamen's friend Dana, R H ca1900 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.052
The American atlas Jefferys, Thomas 1974 • OVERSIZE • 1 copy available. 912.44(7/8)"17"
The Laws of shipping and insurance : with an appendix ... Lees, James, 1859 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 368.23
The masting and rigging of English ships of war 1625-1860 / Lees, James. 1984. Lees, James, 1984 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.12.014.2
The lunar men : the friends who made the future, 1730-1810 /Jenny Uglow. Uglow, Jenny 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 608.1"17/18"
The Merchant Shipping Act 1854 ... : methodically arranged, with a full table of contents, and a table of the repealed acts Lees, James, 1855 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 342.537
Lees' laws of British shipping and of marine assurance, including the Merchant Shipping Consolidation Act 1894 Hamilton, J A 1896 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 368.23
The laws of British shipping and marine insurance / by James Lees. Lees, James, 1865. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.79(42)
Tafel vierstelliger Logarithmen / Bearb. von dr. C. Bremiker. Bremiker, C.-(Carl), 1874. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 519.662(083.5):094
The bombardier and pocket gunner / by Ralph Willett Adye. Adye, Ralph Willett, 1803. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.5:094
A manual for shipmasters : in a series of letters, addressed to them, on their qualifications, duties, powers, responsibilities, etc ... Lees, James, 1849 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:347.79
A manual for shipmasters : in a series of letters, addressed to them, on their qualifications, duties, powers, responsibilities, etc ... / Lees, James. 1851. Lees, James, 1851 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.071.3
A manual for shipmasters : in a series of letters, addressed to them, on their qualifications, duties, powers, responsibilities, etc ... / Lees, James. 1864. Lees, James, 1864 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.071.3
Voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806 : by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander Hoppner, Richard Belgrave (tr) 1813. • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 094:910.4(100)"1803/1806"
Protest against a vote of the Board of Longitude granting to Mr Earnshaw a reward for the merit of his time-keepers / [Joseph Banks]. Banks, Joseph, ca.1804] (London : printed by W. Bulmer). • • 1 copy available. 681.113.92:094
Arguments for giving a reward to Mr Earnshaw for his improvements on time-keepers by the Astronomer Royal : to the Commissioners of Longitude /[Nevil Maskelyne]. Maskelyne, Nevil, ca.1804] (London : Luke Hansard). • • 1 copy available. 681.113.92:094
The Flying Pallas, of 36 guns, at Plymouth, is a new and uncommonly fine frigate ... : ready for an expedition as soon as some more good hands are on board ... [1804]. • RAREPAM-OS • 1 copy available. 355.2"1804"
The bombardier and pocket gunner Adye, Ralph Willett, 1802 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:623.5
Connoissance des temps : pour l'annee bissextile 1788 /calculee par M. Mechain, de la meme academie Mâechain, Pierre, 1788 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 551.51:094
Fundamenta nova theoriae functionum ellipticarum / auctore d. Carolo Gustavo Iacobo Iacobi, Prof. Ord. in Univ. Regiom. Jacobi, C. G. J.-(Carl Gustav Jakob), 1829. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 51:094
Connoissance des temps, a l'usage des astronomes et des navigateurs avec des additions : pour l'annee bissextile 1789 /par M. Mechain, de la meme academie Mâechain, Pierre, 1786 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 551.51:094
Connoissance des temps, a l'usage des astronomes et des navigateurs avec des additions : pour l'annee bissextile 1788 /par M. Mechain, de la meme academie Mâechain, Pierre, 1790 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 551.51:094