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American gunboat diplomacy and the old navy 1877-1889 Hagan, Kenneth J 1973 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1877/1889"(73)

A picturesque voyage to India by the way of China Daniell, Thomas 1810 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 76.035(42)

England's sea victories Low, Charles Rathbone, ca1900 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49(42)

Great battles of the British Navy Low, Charles Rathbone, ca1882 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49(42)

Black England : a forgotten Georgian history /Gretchen Gerzina. "The idea that Britain became a mixed-race country after 1945 is a common mistake. Georgian England had a large and distinctive Black community. Whether prosperous citizens or newly freed slaves, they all ran the risk of kidnap and sale to plantations. Black England tells their dramatic, often moving stories. In the eighteenth century, Black people could be found in clubs and pubs, there were special churches, Black-only balls and organisations for helping Black people who were out of work or in trouble. Many were famous and respected: most notably Francis Barber, Doctor Johnson's beloved manservant; Ignatius Sancho, a correspondent of Laurence Sterne; Francis Williams, a Cambridge scholar, and Olaudah Equiano whose Interesting Narrative went into multiple editions. But far more were ill-paid and ill-treated servants or beggars, despite having served Britain in war and on the seas. For alongside the free world there was slavery, from which many of these Black Britons had escaped. The triumphs and tortures of Black England, the ambivalent relations between the races, sometimes tragic, sometimes heart-warming, are brought to life in this wonderfully readable history. Black England explores a fascinating chapter of our shared past, a chapter that has been ignored too long."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

Deterrence through strength : British naval power and foreign policy under Pax Britannica /Rebecca Berens Matzke. Matzke, Rebecca Berens. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.462(42)"18"

Anglo-French naval rivalry 1840-1870 "The Crimean War brought the British and French navies, the most technologically advanced in the world, into alliance after many years of common hostility. It was a period of enormous technological innovation and development, witnessing the transition from sail to screw, and the birth of the ironclad. In this extensively reseached and thorough study, C. I. Hamilton traces the technological development of both British and French navies and analyses the political and diplomatic policies which formed the backdrop to the naval history of the period 1840-1870. Dr Hamilton compares the two navies in a variety of important ways: their recruitment and training systems, dockyard facilities, naval administrations, strategy and tactics."--Provided by the publisher. 1993 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49(42)

Zapisti morskago ofitsera ... 1805 po 1810 god 1836-1837 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.49"1805/1810"(47)

accession of George IV ... and an account of the Burmese War and the battle of Navarino / James, William. 1837 James, William 1837 • RARE-BOOK • 8 copies available. 094:355.49"1793/1827"(42)

Fauna Boreali-Americana : or the zoology of the northern parts of British America, containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late Northern Land Expeditions, under Captain Sir John Franklin Richardson, John, Sir 1829-1837 • RARE-FOLIO • 4 copies available. 595.7

The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane,-Earl of, 1869 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"17/18"

The autobiography of a man-o-war's bell : a tale of the sea Low, Charles Rathbone, 1975 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-3

A voyage round Great Britain : undertaken in the summer of the year 1813 and commencing from the Land's End, Cornwall Daniell, William, 1814-1826 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:914.2(210.5)"18"

Famous frigate actions / by Charles Rathbone Low ; with eight illustrations by Herbert K. Rooke. Low, Charles Rathbone, 1970. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 904/.7

Old and new astronomy / by Richard A. Proctor ; completed by A. Cowper Ranyard. Proctor, Richard A.-(Richard Anthony), 1892. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 52

Supplementary charter granted by Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, to the Trinity House, of Deptford Strond Trinity House (London, England) 1871 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 627.71(421.6)

Britannia's bulwarks : an historical poem descriptive of the deeds of the British Navy /by Charles Rathbone Low. Low, Charles Rathbone, 1895. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.32(42):82-1

Sir George Burns, Bart. : his times and friends /by Edwin Hodder ; with etched portrait by H. Manesse. A biography of Sir George Burns, Bart, co-founder of the Glasgow Steam Packet Company and British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, forerunner of the Cunard Line. 1890. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 923.8

A treatise on naval architecture and ship-building; or, an exposition of the elementary principles involved in the science and practice of naval construction / Comp. from various standard authorities by Commander Richard W. Meade. Meade, Richard Worsam, 1869 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.12

Maritime discovery : a history of nautical exploration from the earliest times Low, Charles Rathbone, 1881 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 910.4

Myths and marvels of astronomy / by Richard A. Proctor. Proctor, Richard A.-(Richard Anthony), 1878. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 52

On the determination of the longitude : from an observed solar eclipse or occulation /by W. S. B. Woolhouse, head assistant on the Nautical Almanac Establishment Woolhouse, W. S. B.-(Wesley Stoker Barker), circa 1837 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5:094

Shipwrecks of the P&O line This book follows the losses of various P&O ships, starting with the wooden paddle steamer Don Juan's sinking in 1837 and concluding with the Shillong, which sank in 1957. Each ship's history and last voyage are described in detail, along with descriptions of their wrecks from diving expeditions. Where possible, the entries contain colour photographs of the wrecks and the items recovered from them, along with photographs or illustrations of the vessels before they sank. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.792P&O

Under the volcano : revolution in a Sicilian town /Lucy Riall. "1: Original analysis of a key episode in modern Italian history: the revolt at Bronte and the expedition of the Thousand; 2: Offers a fascinating account of Nelson's legacy and of the experience of British life overseas in the Age of Empire; 3: Based on new and hitherto unused archival material; 4: Takes in the long-term origins and consequences of the famous revolt, as well as considering the problem of memory and the struggles over memory in Italy today; 5: Provides a detailed, sometimes intimate account of great historical events seen from a Sicilian town through individual letters and other first-hand accounts. During the momentous events that shook Italy in 1860 as the nation was unified, there was a murderous riot in the Sicilian town of Bronte on the slopes of Mount Etna. Thereafter, Bronte became a symbol - of the limits of the liberal Risorgimento and of the persistence of foreign domination: descendants of Admiral Horatio Nelson had the largest landholding in the town and the British were said to have put pressure on Garibaldi to crush the uprising, which his lieutenant did with brutality. Lucy Riall has used the discovery of a new archive to transform brilliantly this episode into an ambitious exploration of much larger themes. Relaying an often brutal tale of poverty, injustice, and mismanagement, her powerful and engaging narrative also opens windows onto the true meaning of the British presence. Bronte's story becomes one that is also about Britain's policy towards Italy and Europe in the nineteenth century, and about colonial rule overseas in the age of Empire. It shows what happened when these two different aspects of British power bumped into each other in one Sicilian town."--Provided by the publisher. 2013 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 327(42:45)"18"

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