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Maritime history as global history / edited by Maria Fusaro and Amâelia Polâonia. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 94(100:26)

The last slave ships : New York and the end of the middle passage /John Harris. "Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed in the early nineteenth century by every major slave trading nation, merchants based in the United States were still sending hundreds of illegal slave ships from American ports to the African coast. The key instigators were slave traders who moved to New York City after the shuttering of the massive illegal slave trade to Brazil in 1850. These traffickers were determined to make Lower Manhattan a key hub in the illegal slave trade to Cuba. In conjunction with allies in Africa and Cuba, they ensnared around two hundred thousand African men, women, and children during the 1850s and 1860s. John Harris explores how the U.S. government went from ignoring, and even abetting, this illegal trade to helping to shut it down completely in 1867." 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 974.7/103

Pirates of empire : colonisation and maritime violence in Southeast Asia /Stefan Eklèof Amirell. "The suppression of piracy and other forms of maritime violence was a keystone in the colonisation of Southeast Asia. Focusing on what was seen in the nineteenth century as the three most pirate-infested areas in the region--the Sulu Sea, the Strait of Malacca and Indochina--this comparative study in colonial history explores how piracy was defined, contested and used to resist or justify colonial expansion, particularly during the most intense phase of imperial expansion in Southeast Asia from c. 1850 to c. 1920. In doing so, it demonstrates that piratical activity continued to occur in many parts of Southeast Asia well beyond the mid-nineteenth century, when most existing studies of piracy in the region end their period of investigation. It also points to the changes over time in how piracy was conceptualised and dealt with by each of the major colonial powers in the region, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain and the United States"-- 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1(5)

The log book : or, Nautical miscellany. Old Sailor, [between 1850 and 1858] • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 820-82

War, empire and slavery, 1770-1830 / edited by Richard Bessel, Nicholas Guyatt and Jane Rendall. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.01:326(4-44)"1770/1830"

[Collection of anti-slave trade articles] 1848-1851. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1:094

Communication and empire : media, markets, and globalization, 1860-1930 /Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike. Winseck, Dwayne Roy, 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 621.394:621.371

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"

The sailing frigate : a history in ship models /Robert Gardiner ; illustrated from the collections of the National Maritime Museum. "Ship models offer more details than even the best plans and demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that even the finest marine painter could not achieve. This book is the first of a series which will take selections of the best models to tell the story of specific ship types - in this case, the evolution of the cruising ships under sail."--Provided by the publisher. 2012. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 086.5:629.123.1

The impact of technological change : the early steamship in Britain /John Armstrong and David M. Williams. Armstrong, John, 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123.2(42)"19"

Seaside photographed / Val Williams, Karen Shepherdson "Since the beginnings of the medium, photographers have been fascinated by the shoreline and seaside cultures. Seaside: Photographed offers a record of how both British and international image-makers have responded to the UK's coastal communities since 1850 and how the art of photography has both shaped and exposed the multiple layers of the seaside resort. From the roaring waves of the 19th century through the heyday of the classic seaside resort in the 1950s and 60s, and the critical reportage of the 1980s and 1990s, to the more intimate work of the last ten years, many photographers have worked at the British seaside, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lee Miller, Martin Parr and Anna Fox. The end-of-the-pier show, beauty competitions, light entertainment, the seaside boarding house, the holiday camp, combined to give British seaside resorts the brash and colourful image that is now enshrined in British national mythology. Seaside: Photographed shows not only some of the most spectacular and incisive photographic work from the 1850s to the present, but provides a place of shared connection, of collective memory and a space where memories and perceptions are challenged."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 711.455(210.5)

The ship of the line : a history in ship models /Brian Lavery. "The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artefacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, and ranging from the mid seventeenth century to the present day. As such they represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Treated as historical evidence, they offer more detail than even the best plans, and demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that even the finest marine painter could not achieve. The Ship of the Line is the second of a new series that takes selections of the best models to tell the story of specific ship types - in this case, the evolution of the ship of the line, the capital ship of its day, and the epitome of British seapower during its heyday from 1650-1850. This period too coincided with the golden age of ship modelling. Each volume depicts a wide range of models, all shown in full colour, including many close-up and detail views. These are captioned in depth, but many are also annotated to focus attention on interesting or unusual features, and the book weaves the pictures into an authoritative text, producing a unique form of technical history. The series is of particular interest to ship modellers, but all those with an enthusiasm for the ship design and development in the sailing era will attracted to the in-depth analysis of these beautifully presented books."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 086.5:623.82

Rear Admiral Sir John Franklin : A narrative of the circumstances and causes which led to the failure of the searching expeditions sent by government and others for the rescue of Sir John Franklin /John Ross "Sir John Ross (1777-1856), the distinguished British naval officer and Arctic explorer, undertook three great voyages to the Arctic regions; accounts of his first and his second voyages are also reissued in this series. (During the latter, his ship was stranded in the unexplored area of Prince Regent Inlet, where Ross and his crew survived by living and eating as the local Inuit did.) In this volume, first published in 1855, the explorer describes his experiences during his third (privately funded) Arctic voyage, undertaken in 1850 as part of the effort to locate the missing expedition led by Sir John Franklin, his close friend. Ross also summarises in partisan style the previous efforts by the Royal Navy to find out what happened to the Erebus and Terror, and is scathing in his account of what he regards as the mismanagement and incompetence of the Admiralty."--Provided by the publisher. John Ross • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(987)

War, empire and slavery, 1770-1830 / edited by Richard Bessel, Nicholas Guyatt and Jane Rendall. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.01:326(4-44)"1770/1830"

On the edge : mapping North America's coasts /Roger M. McCoy. McCoy, Roger M. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 528.9(7)

Governing the sea in the early modern era : essays in honor of Robert C. Ritchie /edited by Peter C. Mancall and Carole Shammas. "Early modern European governments and their subjects had difficulty agreeing to laws governing behavior on the seaan environment that featured watery borders, rampant piracy, the threat of free trade, and the large-scale transportation of human cargo. The essays in this volume explore how the exploitation of the oceans changed the institution of slavery, long-distance trade, property crime, the environment, literature, and memory from medieval times to the nineteenth century."--Provided by the publisher. [2015]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.225"15/18"

Ship of Death : the tragedy of the 'Emigrant' /Jane Margaret Smith ; [with a foreword by Kerry O'Brien]. When 276 poor British emigrants sail away from Plymouth on the ship 'Emigrant' in April 1850, seeking a better life in Australia, they know nothing of the ordeal that lies ahead. For four terrible months at sea they endure cramped and squalid conditions, insufferable heat, bitter cold ... and a mounting death toll from the dreaded disease that rages through the ship: typhus. When the 'Emigrant' arrives in Moreton Bay, the nightmare continues. For three long months in quarantine at Stradbroke Island, the immigrants' hopes are raised and dashed, and raised and dashed again. Impeccably researched and poignantly told, 'Ship of Death' unfurls the true saga of the ill-fated voyage, quarantine and aftermath. For the first time, this stunning book reveals the human stories of some key players in the drama - their backgrounds, their suffering, and their fates - and in doing so, brings to life a remarkable journey common to many of Australia's early settlers. Their stories are tales of hardship, resilience, courage and despair. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.2(94)EMIGRANT

Slavery in Africa and the Caribbean : a history of enslavement and identity since the 18th century /edited by Olatunji Ojo and Nadine Hunt. "For over four hundred years, thousands of African men and women were taken from their homeland and transported across the world to be sold into slavery. The history of this startling and horrific period is perennially important, and recent scholarship has sought to uncover the experiences of the slaves themselves in order to uncover the voices of its many victims. Slavery and Africa in the Caribbean analyses the written sources which have survived, demonstrating how many Africans coped by adopting a flexible identity in order to negotiate the cultural differences in African, European and Islamic systems of slavery."--Provided by the publisher. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(6:729)"17"

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

The boundless sea : a human history of the oceans /David Abulafia. "For most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples - for the spread of ideas and religion as well as commerce. This book traces the history of human movement and interaction around and across the world's greatest bodies of water, charting our relationship with the oceans from the time of the first voyagers. David Abulafia begins with the earliest of seafaring societies - the Polynesians of the Pacific, the possessors of intuitive navigational skills long before the invention of the compass, who by the first century were trading between their far-flung islands. By the seventh century, trading routes stretched from the coasts of Arabia and Africa to southern China and Japan, bringing together the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific and linking half the world through the international spice trade. In the Atlantic, centuries before the little kingdom of Portugal carved out its powerful, seaborne empire, many peoples sought new lands across the sea - the Bretons, the Frisians and, most notably, the Vikings, now known to be the first Europeans to reach North America. As Portuguese supremacy dwindled in the late sixteenth century, the Spanish, the Dutch and then the British each successively ruled the waves. Following merchants, explorers, pirates, cartographers and travellers in their quests for spices, gold, ivory, slaves, lands for settlement and knowledge of what lay beyond, Abulafia has created an extraordinary narrative of humanity and the oceans. From the earliest forays of peoples in hand-hewn canoes through uncharted waters to the routes now taken daily by supertankers in their thousands, The Boundless Sea shows how maritime networks came to form a continuum of interaction and interconnection across the globe: 90 per cent of global trade is still conducted by sea. This is history of the grandest scale and scope, and from a bracingly different perspective - not, as in most global histories, from the land, but from the boundless seas."--Provided by the publsher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 551.46

Port towns and urban cultures : international histories of the waterfront, c.1700-2000 /Brad Beaven, Karl Bell, Robert James, editors. "Despite the port's prominence in maritime history, its cultural significance has long been neglected in favour of its role within economic and imperial networks. Defined by their intersection of maritime and urban space, port towns were sites of complex cultural exchanges. This book, the product of international scholarship, offers innovative and challenging perspectives on the cultural histories of ports, ranging from eighteenth-century Africa to twentieth-century Australasia and Europe. The essays in this important collection explore two key themes; the nature and character of 'sailortown' culture and port-town life, and the representations of port towns that were forged both within and beyond urban-maritime communities. The book's exploration of port town identities and cultures, and its use of a rich array of methodological approaches and cultural artefacts, will make it of great interest to both urban and maritime historians. It also represents a major contribution to the emerging, interdisciplinary field of coastal studies."--Provided by the publisher. [2016] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 387.1/09

Waves across the south : a new history of revolution and empire /Sujit Sivasundaram. "A bracingly fresh account of the origins of the British empire told from the waters of the global South. After revolutions in America and France, a wave of tumult coursed the globe from 1790 to 1850. In this major reassessment, Cambridge historian Sujit Sivasundaram, turns our understanding of this 'age of revolutions' inside out. He approaches the era not primarily from the perspective of European colonial forces, but from indigenous peoples in the Indian and Pacific Oceans as they faced empire, engaged in vibrant public debate and undertook a visionary enagement with modernity and revolutionary change. Waves Across the South brings together Sivasundaram;s work in far-flung archives across the world and the best new academic research. Too often, history is told from the northern hemisphere, with modernity, knowledge, selfhood and politics moving from the Euro-Atlantic to influence the rest of the word. Waves Across the South tells the story from the viewpoint of Aboriginal Australians and Parsis, Mauritians and Malays. It shows how people of colour asserted their place and their future as the British empire expanded, overtaking the French and Dutch to establish global supremacy. This is a new history that is fitting for our times. It charts how colonisation brought with it tragic limitations to liberty, humanity and equality in southern hemisphere communities. Waves Across the South insists, too, on the political significance of the physical environment: the Bay of Bengal and the Tasman Sea were the essential contexts for the crashing waves of revolution, empire and counter-revoltuion. Naval war, imperial rivalry and oceanic trade had their parts to play, but so did hope, false promise, rebellion, knowledge and the pursuit of modernity. A compulsive story full of cultural depth and range, this is a world history that speaks to the urgent concerns of today. Only when looking from the water can we fully understand where we are now."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 909/.09724

Hooking, drifting and trawling : 500 years of British deep sea fishing Merwe, Pieter van der 1986 • PAMPHLET • 9 copies available. 639.22

The Falklands Saga : a critical study of the Falklands Islands in history and international law, with a compendium of documents /Graham Pascoe. "Volume 1 briefly describes the Falklands landscape and wildlife before analysing the discovery of the islands, revealing strong evidence that they were discovered at the latest around 1518-19 by a Portuguese expedition, not by Vespucci or Magellan. Volume 1 ends just before the beginning of the Second Falklands Crisis of 1831-3, unleashed by Argentina's representative in the islands, Louis Vernet, who seized three American sealing ships."--Provided by the publisher. 2022-2023. • FOLIO • 3 copies available.

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