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The Oxford book of the sea 1992 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 820-82(26)

Longitude : a play /by Arnold Wesker ; based on the book 'Longitude' by Dava Sobel. Wesker, Arnold. 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-2

Converging on cannibals : terrors of slaving in Atlantic Africa, 1509-1670 /Jared Staller. "In Converging on Cannibals, Jared Staller demonstrates that one of the most terrifying discourses used during the era of transatlantic slaving-cannibalism-was coproduced by Europeans and Africans. When these people from vastly different cultures first came into contact, they shared a fear of potential cannibals. Some Africans and European slavers allowed these rumors of themselves as man-eaters to stand unchallenged. Using the visual and verbal idioms of cannibalism, people like the Imbangala of Angola rose to power in a brutal world by embodying terror itself. Beginning in the Kongo in the 1500s, Staller weaves a nuanced narrative of people who chose to live and behave as "jaga," alleged cannibals and terrorists who lived by raiding and enslaving others, culminating in the violent political machinations of Queen Njinga as she took on the mantle of "Jaga" to establish her power. Ultimately, Staller tells the story of Africans who confronted worlds unknown as cannibals, how they used the concept to order the world around them, and how they were themselves brought to order by a world of commercial slaving that was equally cannibalistic in the human lives it consumed."--Provided by the publisher. 2019 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 392.89

Spink insider magazine. 2010- • JOURNAL • 1 copy available. 381.1705

Making time fit : Astronomers, artisans and the state, 1770-1820 /Eoin Edward Phillips "This thesis focuses on the relationship between the clock- and watch-making communities in London and the institutions and personnel associated with the Admiralty, East India Company and the Board of Longitude, in the British effort to manage an effective solution for finding longitude at sea. The thesis identifies a strict cohort of Greenwich-trained personnel (mostly astronomers) and instruments (timekeepers, textbooks, tents) that emerged from the Royal Observatory from the 1770s onwards. It follows their production, testing and training in England, their experience and deployment around the world on a range of voyages, through to the impact made by their journeys back in the metropolis. By following the paths traced by these instruments, makers and users, the thesis proposes a new account of the relations between industrial transformation and imperial power in the period 1770-1820."--Provided by the author. 2014 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 582.282

Colonization, piracy, and trade in early modern Europe : the roles of powerful women and queens /Estelle Paranque, Nate Probasco, Claire Jowitt, editors. "This collection brings together essays examining the international influence of queens, other female rulers, and their representatives from 1450 through 1700, an era of expanding colonial activity and sea trade. As Europe rose in prominence geopolitically, a number of important women-such as Queen Elizabeth I of England, Catherine de Medici, Caterina Cornaro of Cyprus, and Isabel Clara Eugenia of Austria-exerted influence over foreign affairs. Traditionally male-dominated spheres such as trade, colonization, warfare, and espionage were, sometimes for the first time, under the control of powerful women. This interdisciplinary volume examines how they navigated these activities, and how they are represented in literature. By highlighting the links between female power and foreign affairs, 'Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe' contributes to a fuller understanding of early modern queenship."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382-055.2

Burning ships Steele, John 1996 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123Tor Scandinavia

Naval warfare in the Baltic, 1939-1945 : war in the narrow sea Koburger, C W 1994 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 940.545(261.3)

Proud seas and Cornwall's past Tangye, Nigel 1982 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 914.237

Science and exploration in the Pacific : European voyages to the southern oceans in the eighteenth century /edited by Margarette Lincoln. "The exploration of the Pacific in the eighteenth century by western Europeans has an enduring fascination for both specialists and a wider public. Within this field, Cook's voyages have a particular appeal: they include exciting elements of danger, scientific investigation, encounters between different cultures. The essays in this volume, the result of a conference held in 1997 by the National Maritime Museum and the Royal Society, take as their point of departure Cook's first voyage in the Endeavour (1768-71); they re-evaluate its political and social context, look at the expectations and outcomes of the event, and focus on the scientific and cultural issues emerging from this and subsequent Pacific voyages." 1998. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 623.82Endeavour

Feilden's Mersey : the post-war ship photographs of Basil Feilden Feilden, Basil 2001 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 629.123.2(084.121)"1945/1995"

The British and the Dutch : political and cultural relations through the ages Haley, K H D 1988 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 949.2:942

Horrible histories : the terrible Tudors and the slimy Stuarts. Two horrible books in one Deary, Terry 1997 • BOOK • 1 copy available.

The darksome bounds of a failing world : the sinking of the "Titanic" and the end of the Edwardian era /Gareth Russell. "When the ship of dreams sank, so did the Edwardian era. In this original and meticulously-researched narrative history, Gareth Russell considers the real story of the Titanic, and the seismic shift of modernity the 1910s have come to mark in the West. Had she survived her first voyage, The Titanic probably would have dated like other ocean liners. Instead, within a week of setting sail on 10th April 1912, the disaster of her sinking had turned her into one of the biggest news stories of the century. Writing in his signature prose, Gareth Russell peers through the portholes of six first-class travellers to immerse us into the Edwardian era while demonstrating how modernity shook up the class system of the age. Lucy Leslie, Countess of Rothes; 'son' of the British Empire, Tommy Andrews; captain of the industry John Thayer and his son Jack; Jewish immigrant Ida Straus; and model and movie star Dorothy Gibson. Each subject?s unique story offers insights into the established hierarchy during the fin de siáecle of pre-war Britain and America, the Titanic's respective spiritual and economic homelands. Through these entwining lives, Russell investigates social class - its mores, its foibles, its accents, its etiquette, its benefits, its casual or intentional cruelties, its potential nobility. Those nuances also invite analyses of the shipping trade, the birth of the movie industry, the aristocracy, the American Gilded Age, the Irish Home Rule crisis, and Jewish-American communities. The Titanic is the vessel in which we can extrapolate lessons on hubris, folly, greed, love, class, magnificent courage and pitiable weakness. She carried thousands of people and, in that way, she still has thousands of stories to tell. Drawing on brand new and unpublished materials, journal entries and film archives from the time, The Darksome Bounds of a Failing World focuses on the symbolism of the Titanic as the floating symbol of Anglo-American success, its clientele an apt illustration of the limitless - technological, financial - possibilities of its time."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3TITANIC

U.S. marine corps women's reserve : 'they are marines!' the USMCWR in World War II /Jim Moran ; foreword by Nancy Wilt. "When the US Marine Commandant, Major General Thomas Holcomb, announced the formation of what became the US Marine Corps' Women's Reserve, legend has it that the portrait of the fifth Commandant, Archibald Henderson, fell off the wall and crashed to the floor - 'in disbelief'. This branch of the US Marines was authorized by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 30 July 1942. This law allowed for the acceptance of women into the reserve as commissioned officers and at the enlisted level, effective for the duration of the war plus six months. The purpose of the law was to release officers and men for combat and to replace them with women in shore stations. The result was that between 1943 and 1945 the women of America enlisted in their thousands to 'Free A Man to Fight'. This book, the first of its kind, explores in detail the role of Women Marines, or WRs as they were known at the time. It also presents a detailed study of the uniforms of the WRs supported by numerous colour photographs. This book has been written with the full support of the US Marine Corps Histories Division, the Women Marine Association and surviving WR veterans."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353.4(73)-055.2

Taranto 1940 : The Fleet Air Arm's precursor to Pearl Harbor /Angus Konstam ; illustrated by Peter Dennis. "The Royal Navy's attack on Taranto in 1940 heralded a new age of warfare. It was the decisive moment in a struggle for dominance of the Mediterranean that had gone on for months, as the British and Italian navies both looked to secure maritime supply routes for their colonies. With the enormous demands of a global war beginning to tell, the British capital ships were simply too thinly spread for a large fleet action against Taranto, where the bulk of the Italian fleet lay menacingly. How was the Royal Navy to eliminate the threat of the Regia Marina? This is the story of one of World War II's most devastating raids, recounting how a handful of obsolete Fairey Swordfish biplanes swooped in and destroyed an Italian battleship and badly damaged two more. With expert analysis, detailed colour illustrations and a gripping narrative, this book explains the origins of the attack, its planning and execution, and what happened in the aftermath."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.544(42:45)

Axis submarine successes 1939-1945 / Jurgen Rohwer Rohwer, Jurgen 1983 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.827

The Hatfield photographic lunar atlas 2000 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 523.34:912.44

The Kon-Tiki man Heyerdahl, Thor 1990 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(7)"1969"

L'horloge astronomique de la Cathâedrale Saint-Jean de Lyon / Franðcois Branciard et Charles Morat. Branciard, Franðcois. 2000. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.113.91(44)

Keepers of the sea : a history of the yachts and tenders of Trinity House Woodman, Richard, 1983 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 629.124.79:627.71

Frozen empires : an environmental history of the Antarctic Peninsula /Adrian Howkins. "Perpetually covered in ice and snow, the mountainous Antarctic Peninsula stretches southwardd towards the South Pole where it merges with the largest and coldest mass of ice anywhere on the planet. Yet far from being an otherworldly "Pole Apart," the region has the most contested political history of any part of the Antarctic Continent. Since the start of the twentieth century, Argentina, Britain, and Chile have made overlapping sovereignty claims, while the United States and Russia have reserved rights to the entire continent. The environment has been at the heart of these disputes over sovereignty, placing the Antarctic Peninsula at a fascinating intersection between diplomatic history and environmental history. In Frozen Empires, Adrian Howkins argues that there has been a fundamental continuity in the ways in which imperial powers have used the environment to support their political claims in the Antarctic Peninsula region. British officials argued that the production of useful scientific knowledge about the Antarctic helped to justify British ownership. Argentina and Chile made the case that the Antarctic Peninsula belonged to them as a result of geographical proximity, geological continuity, and a general sense of connection. Despite various challenges and claims, however, there has never been a genuine decolonization of the Antarctic Peninsula region. Instead, imperial assertions that respective entities were conducting science "for the good of humanity" were reformulated through the terms of the 1959 Antarctic Treaty, and Antarctica's "frozen empires" remain in place to this day. In arguing for imperial continuity in the region, Howkins counters the official historical narrative of Antarctica, which rests on a dichotomy between "bad" sovereignty claims and "good" scientific research. Frozen Empires instead suggests that science, politics, and the environment have been inextricably connected throughout the history of the Antarctic Peninsula region-and remain so-and shows how political prestige in the guise of conducting "science for the good of humanity" continues to influence international climate negotiations."--Provided by publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 32

The origins of the Newcastle Quayside : excavations at Queen Street and Dog Bank 1988 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 930.26(428.2)

Charles Booth's London poverty maps "In the late nineteenth century, Charles Booth's landmark social and economic survey found that 35 percent of Londoners were living in abject poverty. Booth's team of social investigators interviewed Londoners from all walks of life, recording their comments, together with their own unrestrained remarks and statistical information, in 450 notebooks. Their findings formed the basis of Booth's color-coded social mapping (from vicious and semi-criminal to wealthy) and his seventeen-volume survey Inquiry into the Life and Labour of the People of London, 1886-1903. Organized into six geographical sections, Charles Booth's London Poverty Maps presents the hand-colored preparatory and printed social mapping of London. Accompanying the maps are reproductions of pages from the original notebooks, containing anecdotes and observations too judgmental for Booth to include in his final published survey. An introduction by professor Mary S. Morgan clarifies the aims and methodology of Booth's survey and six themed essays contextualize the the [sic] survey's findings, accompanied by evocative period photographs. Providing insights into the minutia of everyday life viewed through the lens of inhabitants of every trade, class, creed, and nationality, Charles Booth's London Poverty Maps brings to life the diversity and dynamism of late nineteenth-century London."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 362.50942109

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