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East meets West : original records of western traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats to 1852. 2007. • MICROFILM • 1 copy available. 347.71East India
Voyages with a merchant prince : secrets of the Ripley diary /J.M. & M.F. Hutchinson. "If it should be a pirate, we had a fine ship, well armed and plenty of men to use the arms, what had we to fear? Accordingly, all hands were set to make preparations for defence against an enemy. The bosun got ready the great guns, the arms chest was unlocked - muskets, swords, handspikes, pistols, all in demand ...' The Ripley Diary, 12th July 1830. A sailing ship on a voyage that would make a fortune. On board - an ambitious shipowner, his flirtatious young wife, and a crew on the verge of mutiny. Smuggling, piracy and shipwreck are all encountered on this amazing journey. For the first time, the remarkable Ripley Diary is in print. It documents an astonishing voyage to a secret destination in China. This original nineteenth-century text is unique, revealing the early days of free trade in defiance of the edicts of the Emperor of China. It is a national treasure. Enjoy the story of Thomas Ripley, hailed by the Liverpool Chronicle as 'one of our most successful merchant princes', a man who rose from rags to riches. Share the thrill of watching whales and dolphins, the excitement of racing a rival ship to Java, and the delights of exotic locations. If you want to know the truth about life on a sailing ship in the nineteenth century, then read this book. Find out why some of the men were pressed into the British Navy and others were clapped in irons. Discover for yourself the secrets of the Ripley Diary, secrets hidden for 180 years."--Back cover. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92RIPLEY
The millennium maritime trade revolution, 700-1700 : how Asia lost maritime supremacy /Nick Collins. "Following the series' first book How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World, this book continues to demonstrate how maritime trade has been the key driver of the world's wealth-creation, economic and intellectual progress. The story begins where the first book ends, when following Roman Empire collapse, 7th-century European maritime trade almost ceased, creating population collapse and poverty; the Dark Ages. In 700 stuttering, hesitant recovery was evident with new ports but Viking and Muslim maritime raiding neutered recovery until the 11th century. In Asia by contrast, short and long-haul trade thrived and accelerated from east Africa and the Persian Gulf all the way to China, encouraging Southeast Asian state formation. The book tells the story of slowly rising, gradually accelerating European maritime trade, which until the 15th century was overshadowed by far more voluminous Asian trade in much larger, more complex ships traded by more sophisticated commercial entities, contributing to innovative tolerant wealth-creating maritime societies. In Europe, Mediterranean maritime trade made most progress from about 1000 to 1450,. But by 1700 north Europeans dominated Atlantic, American and Mediterranean trade and were penetrating sophisticated Asian maritime networks, a complete reversal. This book explains how and why and how destructive continental influences destroyed Asia's maritime supremacy. As in the first book, Nick Collins finds similar patterns; maritime inquisitiveness, invention, problem-solving and toleration and continental political suppression of those maritime traits, most dramatically in China, but destructively everywhere, allowing the millennium maritime trade revolution."--Provided by the publisher. 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382.094
Cotton : the fabric that made the modern world /Giorgio Riello. "Today's world textile and garment trade is valued at a staggering $425 billion. We are told that under the pressure of increasing globalisation, it is India and China that are the new world manufacturing powerhouses. However, this is not a new phenomenon: until the industrial revolution, Asia manufactured great quantities of colourful printed cottons that were sold to places as far afield as Japan, West Africa and Europe. Cotton explores this earlier globalised economy and its transformation after 1750 as cotton led the way in the industrialisation of Europe. By the early nineteenth century, India, China and the Ottoman Empire switched from world producers to buyers of European cotton textiles, a position that they retained for over two hundred years. This is a fascinating and insightful story which ranges from Asian and European technologies and African slavery to cotton plantations in the Americas and consumer desires across the globe."--Publisher information. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382:677.21
P&O and British India Lines sailings passenger rates and notices /b [Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company]. Booklet listing sailing times and rates for one year from November 1931, from London to the Mediterranean, India, Burma, Japan, Egypt, Ceylon, Australia, East and South Africa, Sudan, Persian Gulf, China and New Zealand. 1931. • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792P&O(083.17)"1931"
East meets West : original records of western traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats to 1852. 2007. • MICROFILM • 1 copy available. 347.71East India
The globe : how the Earth became round /James Hannam "The Globe tells the story of humanity's quest to discover the shape of the world. Philosophers in ancient Greece deduced the true shape of the Earth in the fourth century BCE; the Romans passed the knowledge to India, and from there it spread to Baghdad and Central Asia. In early medieval Europe, Christians debated the matter but long before the time of Columbus, the Catholic Church had accepted that the Earth is round and not flat. However, it wasn't until the seventeenth century that Jesuit missionaries finally convinced the Chinese that their traditional square-earth cosmology was mistaken. An accessible challenge to long-established beliefs about the history of ideas, The Globe shows how the realization that our planet is a sphere deserves to be considered the first great scientific achievement."--Provided by the publisher. 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 525.1
East meets West : original records of western traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats to 1852. 2007. • MICROFILM • 1 copy available. 347.71East India
Concord : peace with honour : China Station 1945-1958 : H.M.S. Concord Association 1995-2010. Lee-Hale, Peter 2012. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.821.1CONCORD
Science : a four thousand year history /Patricia Fara. Fara, Patricia. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 5(091)
East meets West : original records of western traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats to 1852. 2007. • MICROFILM • 1 copy available. 347.71East India
The Silk Road in world history / Xinru Liu. Liu, Xinru 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382(292.4/.5)
The junks and sampans of the Yangtze / Worcester, G R G. 1947-1948. Worcester, G R G 1947-1948 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 629.123.19(512)
East meets West : original records of western traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats to 1852. 2007. • MICROFILM • 1 copy available. 347.71East India
After darkness light : the memoirs of a boy seaman "After Darkness Light - the motto of the Royal Navy Cruiser HMS Aurora - is a book about the author's years of service, starting as a Boy Seaman at the age of 16 and eventually retiring as a Lieutenant R.N. in 1977 after an eventful career. The book details the tours of operations in which the author served - from the Arctic Circle to Operation Torch - from the Mediterranean to the Pacific and China. After a brief spell at home, Harry was sent to Korea, and on his return to the UK he became involved with the recruitment of young men (no longer called 'Boys' but 'Juniors') for training at HMS Ganges, many of whom went on to become successful in their careers."--Provided by the publisher. 1991 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Jones, H
Masters under God : makers of empire: 1816-1884 ;Richard Woodman. General history of British merchant shipping, covering subjects such as emigration to Australia and to various newly discovered gold fields, the opening of China, the Opium Wars and the birth of cruise companies. Also examines technological developments such as the construction of the Suez canal, the laying of submarine telegraph cables and the birth of steam. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61(42)
Cosmos : an illustrated history of astronomy and cosmology /John North. North, John David. 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 524.8
East meets West : original records of western traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats to 1852. 2007. • MICROFILM • 1 copy available. 347.71East India
A curious account of Peter Serrano, who having escaped from shipwreck, lived seven years on a sandy island, on the coast of Peru 1809 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1(51)"1806"
The birth of the modern world 1780-1914 "Covering the period 1780 to 1914, The Birth of the Modern World shows how events in Asia, Africa and South America - from the decline of the eighteenth-century Islamic empires to the anti-European Boxer Rebellion of 1900 in China, had a direct impact on European and American history. And, conversely, how the "ripple effects" of crises such as the European revolutions and the American Civil War worked their way through to the rest of the world. None of the great themes of the nineteenth-century world - the rise of the modern state, industrialisation, liberalism, imperialism, and the progress of world religions - is untouched by the novel perspectives of this compelling new history."--Provided by the publisher. 2004 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 930.9"1780/1914"
Asian maritime strategies : navigating troubled waters /Bernard D. Cole. " Asian Maritime Strategies explores one of the world's most complex and dangerous maritime arenas. Asia, stretching from the Aleutian Islands to the Persian Gulf, contains the world's busiest trade routes. It is also the scene of numerous maritime territorial disputes, pirate attacks, and terrorist threats. In response, the nations of the region are engaged in a nascent naval arms race. In this new work, Bernard Cole, author of the acclaimed The Great Wall At Sea, examines the maritime strategies and naval forces of the region's nations, as well as evaluating the threats and opportunities for cooperation at sea. The United States Navy is intimately involved in these disputes and opportunities, which threaten vital American economic, political, and security interests. The most useful geographical designation for maritime Asia is the "Indo-Pacific" and Cole provides both a survey of the maritime strategies of the primary nations of the Indo-Pacific region as well as an evaluation of the domestic and international politics that drive those strategies. The United States, Canada, Russia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, China, the Philippines, Brunei, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, India, Pakistan, Iran, the smaller Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf states are all surveyed and analyzed. The United States, Japan, China, and India draw the most attention, given their large modern navies and distant strategic reach and the author concludes that the United States remains the dominant maritime power in this huge region, despite its lack of a traditionally strong merchant marine. U.S. maritime power remains paramount, due primarily to its dominant navy. The Chinese naval modernization program deservedly receives a good deal of public attention, but Cole argues that on a day-to-day basis the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, as its navy is named, is the most powerful maritime force in Far Eastern waters, while the modernizing Indian Navy potentially dominates the Indian Ocean. Most telling will be whether United States power and focus remain on the region, while adjusting to continued Chinese maritime power in a way acceptable to both nations. No other current or recent work provides such a complete description of the Indo-Pacific region's navies and maritime strategies, while analyzing the current and future impact of those forces. "-- 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.462(100)"19/20"
The colourful world of the VOC / edited by Leo Akveld and Els M. Jacobs 2002 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 347.71Dutch East India
Maritime Taiwan : historical encounters with the East and the West /Shih-shan Henry Tsai. Tsai, Shih-shan Henry 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 952.91
Sir Martin Frobisher : seaman, soldier, explorer /Taliesin Trow. A biography of Elizabethan mariner Martin Frobisher. Knighted for his services against the Spanish Armada, Frobisher was the first Englishman to seek a Northwest passage to China, commanding three voyages into Canada and Greenland. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92FROBISHER