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The Beaver : first steamship on the west coast "The Beaver was the first, and for many years the only, steamship to work on the west coast of North America. Built for the Hudson's Bay Company, she was launched in London in 1835 and came out around Cape Horn under sail, a journey of over seven months. When she arrived at Fort Vancouver (now Vancouver, Washington), on the Columbia River, her paddlewheels were assembled and her boiler fired up for her first working trip under steam power. The Hudson's Bay Company intended her to serve as a floating fur-trade post, and over the years, skippered by Captain W.H. McNeill, she travelled many thousands of miles up and down the coast, in the quest for furs. Later, she was chartered to the Royal Navy for use as a survey vessel under the command of Lieutenant Daniel Pender, and again, she probed every waterway of the intricate coast. In 1874 the Beaver was sold and worked as a towboat until, in 1888, she was wrecked on the rocks of Prospect Point, at the entrance to Vancouver Harbour. [..] This is the 'biography' of the Beaver, a ship that made an unparallelled contribution to the history of the west coast."--Provided by the publisher. 1993 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 629.123.21(711)

The universal sea language : being a complete code of signals for day and night, adapted to the use of vessels of all nations and requiring no addional flags or means, but such as are found in every vessel, even the smallest fishing craft /by Levin Joergen Rohde. Rohde, Levin Joergen 1835. • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:627.724/.725(100)"1835"

Maritime empires : British imperial maritime trade in the nineteenth century /edited by David Killingray, Margarette Lincoln, and Nigel Rigby. 2004. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 910.4"18"

Narrative of a second voyage in search of a North-West Passage, and of a residence in the Arctic regions during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833 : including the reports of Capt J C Ross ... and the discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole Ross, John,-Sir, 1835 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:910.4(987)"1829/1833"

Distances of the sun, and the four planets, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, from the moon : Calculated according to Mr. Bessel's method, together with their places for every day in the year 1836, and tables for finding the latitude by the Polestar for 1836 /Calculated under the direction of H. C. Schumacher Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1835 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 527(083.5)"1836":094

Fem-stalliga logarithm-tabeller : innehallande de vanliga logarithmeruna fran 0 till 11000, naturliga logarithmerna fran 0 till 10000, logarithmerna for de trigonometriska funktionerna, jemte en samling tabeller, som med fordel kunna anvandas vid numeriska rakningar /af A. F. D. Wackerbarth Wackerbarth, A F D 1867 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 519.66

European slave trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1850 / Richard B. Allen. "Between 1500 and 1850, European traders shipped hundreds of thousands of African, Indian, Malagasy, and Southeast Asian slaves to ports throughout the Indian Ocean world. The activities of the British, Dutch, French, and Portuguese traders who operated in the Indian Ocean demonstrate that European slave trading was not confined largely to the Atlantic but must now be viewed as a truly global phenomenon. European slave trading and abolitionism in the Indian Ocean also led to the development of an increasingly integrated movement of slave, convict, and indentured labor during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the consequences of which resonated well into the twentieth century. Richard B. Allen's magisterial work dramatically expands our understanding of the movement of free and forced labor around the world. Drawing upon extensive archival research and a thorough command of published scholarship, Allen challenges the modern tendency to view the Indian and Atlantic oceans as self-contained units of historical analysis and the attendant failure to understand the ways in which the Indian Ocean and Atlantic worlds have interacted with one another. In so doing, he offers tantalizing new insights into the origins and dynamics of global labor migration in the modern world."--Provided by the publisher. 2014 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326

In the blood of our brothers : abolitionism and the end of the slave trade in Spain's Atlantic empire, 1800-1870 /Jesâus Sanjurjo. "Throughout the nineteenth century, very few people in Spain campaigned to stop the slave trade and did even less to abolish slavery. Even when some supported abolition, the reasons that moved them were not always humanitarian, liberal, or egalitarian. How abolitionist ideas were received, shaped, and transformed during this period has been ripe for study. Jesâus Sanjurjo?s In the Blood of Our Brothers: Abolitionism and the End of the Slave Trade in Spain?s Atlantic Empire, 1800?1870 provides a comprehensive theory of the history, the politics, and the economics of the persistence and growth of the slave trade in the Spanish empire even as other countries moved toward abolition. Sanjurjo privileges the central role that British activists and diplomats played in advancing the abolitionist cause in Spain. In so doing, he brings to attention the complex and uneven development of abolitionist and antiabolitionist discourses in Spain?s public life, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the transatlantic trade. His delineation of the ideological and political tension between Spanish liberalism and imperialism is crucial to formulating a fuller explanation of the reasons for the failure of anti?slave trade initiatives from 1811 to the 1860s. Slave trade was tied to the notion of inviolable property rights, and slavery persisted and peaked following three successful liberal revolutions in Spain."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/6209809034

Critical perspectives on colonialism : writing the empire from below /edited by Fiona Paisley and Kirsty Reid. "This collection brings much-needed focus to the vibrancy and vitality of minority and marginal writing about empire, and to their implications as expressions of embodied contact between imperial power and those negotiating its consequences from 'below'. The chapters explore how less powerful and less privileged actors in metropolitan and colonial societies within the British Empire have made use of the written word and of the power of speech, public performance, and street politics. This book breaks new ground by combining work about marginalized figures from within Britain as well as counterparts in the colonies, ranging from published sources such as indigenous newspapers to ordinary and everyday writings including diaries, letters, petitions, ballads, suicide notes, and more. Each chapter engages with the methodological implications of working with everyday scribblings and asks what these alternate modernities and histories mean for the larger critique of the 'imperial archive' that has shaped much of the most interesting writing on empire in the past decade."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.3/.4:941-44

The war against the pirates : British and American suppression of Caribbean piracy in the early nineteenth century /Barry Gough, Charles Borras. "Based on hitherto unused sources in English and Spanish in British and American archives, in this book naval historian Barry Gough and legal authority Charles Borras investigate a secret Anglo-American coercive war against Spain, 1815-1835. Described as a war against piracy at the time, the authors explore how British and American interests - diplomatic and military - aligned to contain Spanish power to the critically influential islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico, facilitating the forging of an enduring but unproclaimed Anglo-American alliance which endures to this day. Due attention is given to United States Navy actions under Commodore David Porter, to this day a subject of controversy. More significantly though, through the juxtaposition of British, American and Spanish sources, this book uncovers the roots of piracy - and suppression - that laid the foundation for the tortured decline of the Spanish empire in the Americas and the subsequent rise of British and American empires, instrumental in stamping out Caribbean piracy for good."--Provided by the publisher. 2018 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1(42:73)"18"

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

Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, ESQ. F.R.S. secretary to the admiralty in the reigns of Charles II and James II. Comprising his diary from 1659 to 1669... Pepys, Samuel, 1828. • RARE-BOOK • 5 copies available. 094:92Pepys(093.32)

The making of the modern admiralty : British naval policy-making 1805-1927 /C.I. Hamilton. "This is an important new history of decision-making and policy-making in the British Admiralty from Trafalgar to the aftermath of Jutland. C. I. Hamilton explores the role of technological change, the global balance of power and, in particular, of finance and the First World War in shaping decision-making and organisational development within the Admiralty. He shows that decision-making was found not so much in the hands of the Board but at first largely in the hands of individuals, then groups or committees, and finally certain permanent bureaucracies. The latter bodies, such as the Naval Staff, were crucial to the development of policy-making as was the civil service Secretariat under the Permanent Secretary. By the 1920s the Admiralty had become not just a proper policy-making organisation, but for the first time a thoroughly civil-military one"-- 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.02(42)"18/19"

An account of the Revd John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer-Royal, compiled from his own manuscripts, and other authentic documents, never before published. To which is added, his British catalogue of stars, corrected and enlarged / Francis Baily. Baily, Francis, 1835. • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 52.93:094

Oxford : mapping the city /Daniel MacCannell. "Over the past four and a half centuries, the magnificent city of Oxford has been mapped for many reasons, few of which have involved the mere finding of one's way through the streets. Maps were produced as part of schemes to defend Oxford from rampaging Roundheads, raging floodwaters, and the ravages of cholera; to plan the new canals and bridges of the eighteenth century and the new railways, tramways and suburbs of the nineteenth; to determine and display changes in the city's political stature under the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1867; to aid police enforcement of the laws against homosexuality; and even to plan a Soviet ground assault on the heart of the British motor industry. Given its status as a world centre of drama, poetry, literature, music, architecture, and scientific experimentation, and sometime royal capital, it is unsurprising that Oxford was the first British town to be included in map form in a tourist guidebook, as early as 1762, and one of just two inland towns mapped by French invasion planners in the Seven Years' War.For the first time, this lavishly illustrated volume brings together sixty of the most remarkable maps and views of the area that have been made by friend and foe since 1575."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 911.425/74

Canton register. • JOURNAL • 9 copies available.

Three voyages for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and a narrative of an attempt to reach the North Pole Parry, William Edward,-Sir, 1835 • RARE-BOOK • 8 copies available. 623.82Fury

J.F. Encke's astronomische Abhandlungen : zusammengestellt aus den Jahrgèangen 1830 bis 1862 des Berliner astronomischen Jahrbuches nebst drei in diesen Jahrgèangen enthaltenen Abhandlungen /von Bessel, Olbers, und Bremicker. 1866. • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 52"1830/1862":094

Russian California, 1806-1860 : a history in documents /compiled and edited by James R. Gibson and Alexei A. Istomin. "This two-volume book is a documentary history of Russia's 19th-century settlement in California. It contains 492 documents (letters, reports, travel descriptions, censuses, ethnographic and geographical information), mostly translated from the Russian for the first time, very fully annotated, and with an extensive historical introduction, maps, and illustrations, many in colour. This broad range of primary sources provides a comprehensive and detailed history of the Russian Empire's most distant and most exotic outpost, one whose liquidation in 1841 presaged St Petersburg's abandonment of all of Russian America in 1867. Russia from the sixteenth century onwards had steadily expanded eastwards in search of profitable resources. This expansion was rapid, eased not only by the absence of foreign opposition and disunity of the native peoples but also by Siberia's river network and the North Pacific's convenient causeway of the Aleutian chain leading to Alaska. It was paid for largely by the 'soft gold' of Siberian sables and Pacific sea otters. By the end of the 1700s, however, on the Northwest Coast of North America the Russians met increasing opposition from the indigenous people (Tlingits) and foreign rivals (American and English fur-trading vessels). This combination soon depleted the coast of sea otters, and at the same time the Russians were finding it ever more expensive to obtain supplies from Europe by overland transport across Siberia or round-the-world voyages, so under the aegis of the monopolistic Russian-American Company (1799) they leapfrogged southward to the frontera del norte of the Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain. Here, in 1812, they founded Russian California (officially, Ross Counter) as a base for hunting the Californian sea otter, growing grain and rearing stock, and trading with the Spanish missions. Eventually the exclave comprised a fort (Ross), a port (Bodega), five farms, and a hunting and birding station on the Farallon Islands, as well as a shipyard, a tannery, and a brickworks. The successes and failures of these enterprises, the perils of navigation, experiments in agriculture, the personal, political and economic problems of the colony, and Russian engagement with the indigenous population all come to life in these pages."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 061.22HAKLUYT

Narrative of a second voyage in search of a North-West Passage, and of a residence in the Arctic regions during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833 / by Sir John Ross. Ross, John,-Sir, 1835. • RARE-FOLIO • 9 copies available. 094:910.4(987)"1829/1833"

Abolition & Emancipation: Part 1: Papers of Thomas Clarkson, William Lloyd Garrison, Zachary Macaulay, Harriet Martineau, Harriet Beecher Stowe & William Wilberforce from the Huntington Library 1996. • MICROFILM • 10 copies available.

Astronomical observations made at the Observatory of Cambridge Challis, James 1834-1890 • RARE-FOLIO • 17 copies available. 520.1

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