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The post-captain : or, the wooden walls well manned :comprehending a view of naval society and manners :a new edition / [Davis, John]. Davis, John 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.124
Commemorating the seafarer : monuments, memorials and memory /Barbara Tomlinson. "This book discusses memorials - stained glass windows, church, cemetery and public monuments - commemorating British seafarers, shipbuilders and victims of shipwreck from the sixteenth century to the present. Examples have been chosen mainly from Great Britain and Ireland with a few from wider afield. They include important works by major British artists as well as more modest productions by anonymous carvers. The book retells the dramatic stories behind them, illustrating significant social and cultural changes in Britain's relationship to the sea. Memorials vividly illustrate the hazards of seagoing life and the impact these had both upon the family of the deceased and the general public. The book has a cultural historical focus. Each chapter includes case studies of both high status and popular memorials, showing how iconography such as the depiction of the wrecked ship was widely transmitted. The book covers both naval and commercial aspects of seafaring and includes memorials to naval officers, merchants, explorers, fishermen, leisure sailors, victims of shipwrecks and lifesavers, with around 100 illustrations of memorials."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 725.94(42)
A voyage to Cadiz and Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean to Sicily and Malta, in 1810 and 11, including a description of Sicily and the Lipari Islands, and an excursion in Portugal Cockburn, George 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:910.4(458)"1810/1811"
British military and naval medicine, 1600-1830 / edited by Geoffrey L. Hudson. "Standing armies and navies brought with them military medical establishments, shifting the focus of disease management from individuals to groups. Prevention, discipline, and surveillance produced results, and career opportunities for physicians and surgeons. All these developments had an impact on medicine and society, and were in turn influenced by them. The essays within examine these phenomena, exploring the imperial context, nursing and medicine in Britain, naval medicine, as well as the relationship between medicine, the state and society"--Back cover. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 61"16/1830"
Wales and the British overseas empire : interactions and influences, 1650-1830 /edited by H.V.Bowen. Examines the many relationships between Wales and the expanding British overseas empire between 1650 and 1830, including economic, social, cultural, political, and religious interactions. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942.9"16/18"
An Act to continue the encouragement of persons making discoveries for finding the longitude at sea, or other useful discoveries and improvements in navigation, and for making experiments relating thereto ... Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc 1815 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 528.282
Gender, war and politics : transatlantic perspectives, 1775-1830 /edited by Karen Hagemann, Gisela Mettele, Jane Rendall. "This volume addresses war, developing political and national identities and the changing gender regimes of Europe and the Americas between 1775 and 1820. Military and civilian experiences of war and revolution, in free and slave societies, both reflected and shaped gender concepts and practices, in relation to class, ethnicity, race and religion"-- 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.02(261)-055.2
American adversaries : West and Copley in a transatlantic world /Emily Ballew Neff with Kaylin H. Weber ; with contributions by Janet Catherine Berlo, James Clifton, Leo Costello, Christopher Lloyd, Donna Pierce, and Martin Postle. "Illuminating essays and more than two hundred images offer a compelling account of the 18th-century contemporary history painters John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West--America's first global art superstars"--Provided by publisher. 2013. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 7(73)"19"
Auxiliary tables for determining the angle of position of the sun's axis and the latittude and longitude of the earth referred to the sun's equator / by Warren De La Rue De la Rue, Warren, 1875-78 • RARE-FOLIO • 4 copies available. 52-17
The role of naval bases in maritime operations in the Mediterranean during the eighteenth century, and Dockyards and naval bases in North America, the Atlantic and the Caribbean : Transactions of the Naval Dockyards Society Volume 15 September 2021; Conferences held at the National Maritime Museum Greenwich 24 March 2018 and 30 March 2019. The Naval Dockyards Society. 2021. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
An Act to continue for one year certain Acts for the better prevention and punishment of attempts to seduce persons serving in His Majesty's forces by sea and land from their duty and allegiance to His Majesty, or to incite them to mutiny or disobedience Great Britain. Laws, statutes etc 1815 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.291.5
Naval chronology : or, an historical summary of naval and maritime events... from the time of the Romans, to the Treaty of Peace of Amiens, with a copious appendix : in five volumes : a new edition revised and corrected : volumes I and V Schomberg, Isaac 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.49(42)
Voyages dans les mers du Sud / L'Atelier d'Artistes "A collection of paintings and photographs from a range of artists focusing on areas in Oceania" 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 75(9)
The burning of Washington : the British invasion of 1814 Taken from first-hand sources including letters, diaries, journals and newspapers, the author has produced a narrative of the 1812-1815 war between America and Great Britain. Particular emphasis is on the attack and burning of Washington by the British. He also describes how Francis Scott Key was inspired to write the epic poem which later became the national anthem and reveals the sense of pride that the Americans felt after winning this Second War of Independence. 1998 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1812/1815"(42:73)
Migration and empire / Marjory Harper and Stephen Constantine. Harper, Marjory 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325
Gnomonique graphique ou methode simple et facile pour tracer les cadrans solaires sur toute sorte de plans, sans aucun calcul, et en ne faisant usage que de la regle et du compas: suive de quelques problemes curieux, relatifs aux surfaces spherique et cylindrique Mollet, J 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.2M:094
Manuel chronometrique : ou precis de ce qui concerne le tems, ses divisions, ses mesures, leurs usages etc Janvier, Antide 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 529.7
Nelson's letters to Lady Hamilton and related documents / edited by Marianne Czisnik. "This critical edition of Admiral Nelson's letters to Lady Hamilton is to bring together the important letters of Nelson to Lady Hamilton that have only been published in parts over the last 200 years. Only by bringing the letters of Nelson to Lady Hamilton together is it possible to assess their relationship and to present certain insights into Nelson's personality that are not revealed in his official correspondence. Thorough research into this side of Nelson's personality and into the nature of his notorious and unconventional relationship with Lady Hamilton has been hampered in the past by a desire not to look too closely at Nelson's personal morality. To a considerable extent their relationship was regarded as a challenge to traditional gender roles and it indeed did not conform to stereotypes that are usually attributed to men and women in a heterosexual relationship. Lady Hamilton was so obviously lacking in the subservience and passivity expected from women in that era that authors over the course of time started to exclude her in their accounts of the public sphere by reducing her to a private weakness of Nelson's, who could be successful at sea, where he was far away from the enthralling influence of a manipulating woman. The letters in this edition testify how Admiral Nelson's life at sea was not exclusively public nor was Lady Hamilton's life ashore solely private. It also shows how the two supposedly separate spheres of male and female lives were connected. A fresh approach and a thorough discussion of this important and neglected aspect not only of Nelson's life, but of gender history, demands this exact and scholarly edition of the primary material, which consists of about 400 letters that Nelson wrote to Lady Hamilton over the course of the last seven years of his life and about a dozen letters of her to him that have survived."-- [2020] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.22NRS
Ships employed in the South Seas trade, 1775-1859. A.G.E. Jones ; expanded and edited by Dale Chatwin. Jones, A. G. E., [2014]. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 387.245
Memoirs of Lady Hamilton : with illustrative anecdotes of many of her most particular friends and distinguished contemporaries 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 094:92Hamilton
The history of English sea ordnance, 1523-1875 / Adrian B. Caruana. Caruana, Adrian B., 1994-1997. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 623.42(42)"15/18"
The Bard brothers : painting America under steam and sail "Before the railroad, the great transportation innovation in American life was the steamboat, first successfully developed commercially by Robert Fulton in 1807. [...] Much of what we know about how steamboats looked between 1835 and 1900 comes from the meticulously detailed paintings of John and James Bard, twin brothers who were born in New York City in 1815, coincidentally the same year that Robert Fulton died. The Bard brothers taught themselves to paint, turning out their first joint work at the age of twelve, and they became the greatest chroniclers of the steamboat era. [...] To celebrate the Bards' achievements, The Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, has produced the traveling exhibition that stimulated this book. Aiding in the museum's work has been Anthony J. Peluso, Jr., without doubt the leading authority on the work of the two brothers. [...] The narrative tells the life stories of the brothers, who grew up in modest circumstances in lower Manhattan. [...] The book also offers delightful details about the steamboats themselves, their colorful and competitive owners (including Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould), and the river and harbor traffic of the Hudson River and Long Island Sound. For the Americana buff, anyone interested in United States history and technology, for the steamboat fancier and the folk art enthusiast, this volume is a must."--Provided by the publisher. 1997 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7Bard
Incidents in the life of a slave girl : written by herself /Harriet A. Jacobs ; edited by L. Maria Child. With 'A true tale of slavery' / by John S. Jacobs ; edited and with an introduction by Jean Fagan Yellin "This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John S. Jacobs's short slave narrative, 'A True Tale of Slavery', published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet Jacobs's autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John Jacobs presents further historical information about family life so well described already by his sister. Once more, Jean Fagan Yellin, who discovered this long-lost document, supplies annotation and authentication. This is the standard edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, reissued here in the John Harvard Library and updated with a new bibliography."--Provided by the publisher. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.7/115092
A philosophical and mathematical dictionary : containing an explanation of the terms, and an account of the several subjects, comprised under the heads mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy both natural and experimental Hutton, Charles 1815 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 51/52(03)