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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

Rule a wife and have a wife : a comedy : altered from Beaumont and Fletcher ... as it is performed at the Theatres Royal by W Oxberry, comedian Garrick, David 1820 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:820-2

Wild Oats : or, the strolling gentleman : a comedy ... as it is performed at the Theatres Royal by W Oxberry, comedian O'Keeffe, John 1820 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:820-2

Rugantino : or, the bravo of of Venice : a melo-drame ... as it is performed at the Theatres Royal by W Oxberry, comedian Lewis, M G 1820 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:820-2

Ephemeris of the distances of the four planets Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn from the Moon's center for 1822, to which are annected tables for finding the latitude by the polar-star for 1821 and 1822 Schumacher, H.C. 1820 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52-17:094

Voyage in the Indian Seas in the Nisus frigate, to the Cape of Good Hope, Isles of Bourbon, France and Seychelles : to Madras and the Isles of Java, St Paul and Amsterdam during the years 1810 and 1811 Prior, James 1820 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(267)"1810/1811"

History of the Royal Astronomical Society / edited by J.L.E. Dreyer and H.H. Turner. Volume 1 : 1820-1920 : A reprint of the edition first published by the Royal Astronomical Society in 1923, this book traces the history of the Society during its first centenary. The idea of compiling the History was started some years before the centenary itself and the book details events and presents portraits of outstanding Society members who contributed to the history of the Society in a century which closed at a time when the Society was again in full vigour and growth after the difficult years of the Great War. 1987. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 061.22(421):52RAS

The politics of empire at the accession of George III : the East India Company and the crisis and transformation of Britain's imperial state /James M. Vaughn. "In this bold debut work, historian James M. Vaughn challenges the scholarly consensus that British India and the Second Empire were founded in 'a fit of absence of mind.' He instead argues that the origins of the Raj and the largest empire of the modern world were rooted in political conflicts and movements in Britain. It was British conservatives who shaped the Second Empire into one of conquest and dominion, emphasizing the extraction of resources and the subjugation of colonial populations. Drawing on a wide array of sources, Vaughn shows how the East India Company was transformed from a corporation into an imperial power in the service of British political forces opposed to the rising radicalism of the period. The Company's dominion in Bengal, where it raised territorial revenue and maintained a large army, was an autocratic bulwark of Britain's established order. A major work of political and imperial history, this volume offers an important new understanding of the era and its global ramifications."--Provided by the publisher. 2019 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.71EAST INDIA

London Magazine 1732 • JOURNAL • 1 copy available.

Table des logarithmes des sinus et tangentes : de seconde en seconde pour les cinq premiers degrâes, de dix en dix secondes pour tous les degrâes du quarte de cercle. Callet, Franðcois, [1820?] • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 519.662(083.5):094

Correspondance astronomique, gâeographique, hydrographique et statistique / du Baron de Zach. Zach, Franz Xaver,-Freiherr von, 1820 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52"1820":094

An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour Byron, John 1773 • RARE-FOLIO • 3 copies available. 094:910.4(93/96)"1764/1771"

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"

British campaigns in the South Atlantic, 1805-1807 : operations in the Cape and the River Plate and their consequences /John D. Grainger. "Between 1805 and 1807 the British mounted several expeditions into the South Atlantic aimed at weakening Napoleon's Spanish and Dutch allies. The targets were the Dutch colony on South Africa's Cape of Good Hope, which potentially threatened British shipping routes to India, and the Spanish colonies in the Rio de la Plata basin (now parts of Argentina and Uruguay). In 1805 an army of around 6,000 men was dispatched for the Cape under the highly-respected General David Baird. They were escorted and assisted by a naval squadron under Home Riggs Popham. The Cape surrendered in January 1806. Popham then persuaded Baird to lend him troops for an attack on Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires was taken in July but the paltry British force (around 2,400 men) was then besieged and forced to surrender in August. Popham was later court martialled for exceeding his orders. In Feb 1807 Montevideo was taken by a new (officially sanctioned) British force of 6,000 men. Whitelocke, the British Commander then attempted to retake Buenos Aires (not least to free British prisoners from the first attempt) but was defeated by unexpectedly fierce resistance stiffened by armed creoles and slaves. After heavy losses he signed an armistice, surrendering Montevideo and withdrawing all his forces. He too was court-martialled. One of the major themes of this new account is the strong Scottish connection - Baird and Popham were both Scots, and the 71st Highlanders made up the main force in the Cape and Popham's adventure. Another is the unlooked for consequences of these actions. The arrival of Scottish Calvinist ministers in the Cape influenced the eventual development of apartheid, while successful resistance to the British, with little help from Spain, shaped and accelerated the independence movement in South America."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1805/1807"(42:44)

Notes of a military reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, including part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila rivers. By Lieut. Col. W.H. Emory. made in 1846-7, with the advanced guard of the "Army of the "West" ... United States.-Army.---Corps of Topographical Engineers. 1848 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(73)"1846/1847":094

The index of paintings sold in the British Isles during the nineteenth century / ed. Burton B. Fredericksen. 1988. • FOLIO • 7 copies available. 75(083.96)

Narrative of a voyage to Java, China and the great Loo-Choo Island : with accounts of Sir Murray Maxwell's attack on the Chinese batteries and of an interview with Napoleon Buonaparte at St Helena Hall, Basil, 1840 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:98"1820/1822"

A treatise on marine surveying Mckenzie, Murdoch, 1819 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:528.47

On a new principle of constructing ships in the mercantile navy Seppings, Robert 1820 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 629.12.011.21

Determinatio attractionis, quam in punctum quodvis positionis datae exerceret planeta, si eius massa per totam orbitam, ratione temporis : quo singulae partes describuntur, uniformiter esset dispertita /Auctore Carolo Friderico Gauss Gauss, Carl Friedrich, [1820] • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 51:094

The Black Book : or corruption unmasked : being an account of places, pensions and sinecures, the revenues of the clergy and landed aristocracy ... the expenditure of the Civil List ... the robbery of charitable foundations ... to which is added correct lists of both Houses of Parliament ... forming a complete exposition of the ... corruption of the borough government 1820 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:343.35(42)

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

Dissertations and letters, by Don Joseph Rodriguez, the Chevalier Delambre, Baron de Zach, Dr. Thomas Thomson, Dr. Olinthus Gregory, and others : tending either to impugn or to defend the trigonometrical survey of England and Wales ; carrying on by Col. Mudge and Capt. Colby. Collected, with notes and observations, including an exposure of the misrepresentations and contradictions of Dr. Thomson, and a defence of the late Astronomer Royal against the imputations of Baron de Zach. /by Olinthus Gregory, LL. D. of the Royal Military Academy. Gregory, Olinthus 1815. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 528:094

An account of the Arctic regions, with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery Scoresby, William 1820 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 59(98)

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