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Between worlds : voyagers to Britain, 1700-1850 /Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones, David Bindman, Romita Ray, Stephanie Pratt. Foreword by Ekow Eshun.
"From the seventeenth century, largely as a result of British colonial expansion, non-European visitors to England caused widespread frissons of excitement, interest and curiosity in social circles across the capital. This book examines the complexities and ambiguities of encounters between these visitors and their British contemporaries over 150 years. These visitors from former British colonies, including North America, the South Pacific, India and Africa; their reasons for coming and their reception in Britain were as diverse as their backgrounds. Their stories, their impressions and the impact they had on British society are examined here for the first time. The book brings to life the fascinating accounts of a small but diverse group of fourteen individuals, including the 'Four Indian Kings' from Canada and Mai from the South Pacific, Raja Rammonhun Roy from India and Sara Baartman 'The Hottentot Venus' from Africa. In addition to its art-historical import, this timely account is of real contemporary cultural resonance."--Provided by the publisher.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
325.46-054.6(42)"17/18"
The pirate queen : Queen Elizabeth I, her pirate adventurers, and the dawn of empire /Susan Ronald.
A biography of Queen Elizabeth I focusing on her role in developing England's trade, accumulating wealth and early colonial expansion set against the context of the country's unstable financial and geopolitical situation on her accession to the throne. This work looks in detail at her relationships with the men, the merchants and maritime adventurers, who helped her to achieve her goals, including John Hawkins, Sir Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh. The book is supported by a bibliography and detailed notes.
2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92ELIZABETH I
Islamic science and the making of the European Renaissance / George Saliba.
"The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and in general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations - the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations of Islamic scientific thought were laid well before Greek sources were formally translated into Arabic in the ninth century. Drawing on an account by the tenth-century intellectual historian Ibn al-Nadim that is ignored by most modern scholars, Saliba suggests that early translations from mainly Persian and Greek sources outlining elementary scientific ideas for the use of government departments were the impetus for the development of the Islamic scientific tradition. He argues further that there was an organic relationship between the Islamic scientific thought that developed in later centuries and the science that came into being in Europe during the Renaissance."--BOOK JACKET.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
5(5-15:4)
The Jamestown project / Karen Ordahl Kupperman.
"Reconfiguring the national myth of Jamestown's failure [Karen Kupperman] shows how the settlement's distinctly messy first decade actually represents a period of ferment in which individuals were learning how to make a colony work.... the structures and practices that evolved through trial and error in Virginia would become the model for all successful English colonies, including Plymouth."--Dust jacket.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
973.02
Oil paintings in public ownership in Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly / The Public Catalogue Foundation ; Andrew Ellis, director, Sonia Roe, editor, Rob Airey, catalogue coordinator, Steve Tanner, photography.
"Reveals 1,556 publicly owned oil paintings from 54 collections across the county and archipelago off Land's End. The largest single collection is the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro with just over 400 paintings. Other significant holdings are found at Penlee House Gallery and Museum in Penzance and Falmouth Art Gallery"--Dust Jacket.
2007. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
069(423.7)
The comet sweeper : Caroline's Herschel's astronomical ambition /Claire Brock.
""The Comet Sweeper" is the incredible story of Britain's first female professional scientist, Caroline Herschel - a true Enlightenment celebrity whose rediscovery is long overdue. Such was Herschel's reputation that a congratulatory letter in 1790 from the director of the Paris Observatory was simply addressed to "Mlle Caroline Herschel, Astronome Celebre, Slough." Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing and establishing a career in England, Herschel learned astronomy while helping her brother William, then Astronomer Royal. Soon she was making scientific discoveries in her own right, and she swept to international scientific and popular fame. She was awarded a salary by George III in 1787, becoming the first woman in Britain ever to make her living from science. But, as a woman in a male-dominated world, Herschel's great success was achieved despite constant frustration of her ambitions. Assisting her brother had to take priority over her own work, and his marriage separated her from the instruments of her trade, stalling her career. Drawing on original sources - including Herschel's diaries and her fiery letters - Claire Brock tells the story of a woman so determined to win independence and satisfy her ambition that she moved careers and countries while chasing success."--Provided by the publisher
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
520.92
Art for the Nation : the oil paintings collections of the National Maritime Museum /edited by Geoff Quilley ; with contributions from John Bonehill, Caroline Corbeau, Olivia Horsfall Turner, Eleanor S. Hughes, Roger Quarms and Pieter van der Merwe.
National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
2006. • BOOK • 2 copies available.
069(6:421.6):75
The Arctic gold rush : the new race for tomorrow's natural resources /Roger Howard.
"On August 2, 2007, a Russian submarine captured world headlines by making a dangerous journey to the bottom of the Arctic seabed and planting a metal, rustfree national flag more than 14,000 feet beneath the North Pole. The aim was to assert Russia's legal sovereignty over a region whose importance had only recently started to become apparent as its melting ice had made, or was expected to make, vast natural resources open to exploitation. The latest estimates are that the region holds around 13% of the world's undiscovered oil and as much as 30% of undiscovered natural gas reserves that would be hugely profitable for any country that managed to secure control over them. Gold, platinum, copper, and other precious metals have also been found along the coast. Neighboring countries - Russia, the United States, Canada, Denmark, and Norway - are already doing everything they can to mark out new borders. The ensuing political disagreements over the issue are already rife. In particular, games of political intrigue between Moscow and Washington are being played out in the region. But as the world's resources become increasingly scarce and valuable, could the scramble for Arctic resources become violent? Could a 'War for the Arctic' be fought?"--Provided by the publisher.
2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4(98):553
Make do and mend : keeping family and home afloat on war rations : reproductions of official Second World War instruction leaflets /foreword by Jill Norman.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
64.05(42)"1939/1945"
The Bright-Meyler papers : a Bristol-West India connection, 1732-1837 /edited by Kenneth Morgan.
"These documents illuminate the conduct of British trade in the Caribbean when slavery was at its height and Jamaica was the wealthiest territory in Britain's Atlantic empire. Pertaining to the commercial and plantation interests of two Bristol families connected through marriage and business, the volume sheds light on how fortunes were created by merchants striving for improvement, independence, and social mobility. The documents include correspondence, wills and inventories, partnership agreements, insurance policies and property deeds. The introduction addresses issues of the slave trade and sugar cultivation, capital accumulation, the ways in which a West India fortune was created, the risk environment of the Caribbean, and social, economic and demographic conditions in 18th-century Bristol and Jamaica."--Provided by the publisher.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1:382"1732/1837"
Science in the marketplace : nineteenth-century sites and experiences /edited by Aileen Fyfe & Bernard Lightman.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
5(091)(42)"19"
The mindful hand : inquiry and invention from the late Renaissance to early industrialisation /edited by Lissa Roberts, Simon Schaffer and Peter Dear.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
001.894(4)"13/18"
Out of the blue : public interpretation of maritime cultural resources /John H. Jameson, Della A. Scott-Ireton, editors.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
930.26(204):37
U-boats vs destroyer escorts : the Battle of the Atlantic /Gordon Williamson.
"Winston Churchill claimed the 'U-boat peril' was the only thing that frightened him during World War II. The U-boat was developed from a small coastal vessel into a state-of-the-art killer, stalking the high seas picking off merchant convoys, until the introduction of the Destroyer Escort and other specialized escort vessels, and the development of dedicated anti-submarine tactics provided a means of defence and attack against the U-boats. Gordon Williamson describes the design and development of these deadly opponents, their tactics, strengths and weaknesses, weaponry and training. He provides an insight into the lives of the Royal Navy, United States Navy and Wolfpack crews as they played their deadly games of cat and mouse on the high seas, gambling with their lives and the fate of the war."--Jacket.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
940.545.9
The invention of pastel painting / Thea Burns.
"Chalks and pastels are particularly appropriate materials for portraits because they appear effortlessly to convey the warm tones and soft, matte velvety surface of skin. Portraits and head studies therefore figure prominently in histories of pastel. The Invention of Pastel Painting describes the relatively sudden emergence in the later seventeenth century of sets of friable pastel sticks and a new artistic practice of painting in pastel. The author reconsiders the use of natural and fabricated drawing sticks as tools, firmly locating their use in the context of historical function. 'Artistic techniques have a social history; they are signs endowed with cultural meaning by society.' The visual, documentary and etymological evidence does not support the concept of a narrative history of pastel gradually progressing from a 'simple' original state in the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, Jean and Francois Clouet and the Dumonstiers to an increasingly richly coloured and technically complex visual record in the paintings of Robert Nanteuil, Joseph Vivien and Rosalba Carriera, and then continuing to evolve through the nineteenth century. In considering the history of chalk and pastel, the author argues that the change is aesthetic, not formal, and is grounded in social function and technical response. She has drawn not only on artists' letters and accounts, documents, critical and theoretical writings, and, broadly, the secondary literature, but also on close visual examination and scientific analysis of selected chalk drawings and paintings in pastel, particularly those created between 1500 and 1750."--Provided by the publisher.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
741.235
Archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the local instiutions [sic] in Batavia (Jakarta) : Arsip-arsip Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) dan lembaga-lembaga pemerintahan kota Batavia (Jakarta) = De archieven van de Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) en de locale instellingen te Batavia (Jakarta) /G.L. Balk, F. van Dijk, D.J. Kortland.
Containing inventories of 15 archives related to the Dutch East India Company (VOC) that are kept in Jakarta as well as material on the history of the VOC and additional references. The inventories included are: Hoge Regering, Hoge Commissie, Algemene Rekenhamer, Raad van Justitie, Schepenbank, Heemraden, Weeskamer, Boedelkamer, Bank van Lening, Vendukantoor, Amphioensocièeteit, Notarissen, Kerken, Burgerlijke Stand, and Engelhard.
2007. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
347.71EAST INDIA:930.25(594.51)
Polar crusader : a life of Sir James Wordie /by Michael Smith.
"Sir James Mann Wordie, born in Glasgow in 1889, was the elder statesman of polar exploration - the link between the heroic Edwardian Age of Shackleton and Scott and the mechanised modern era which opened up Antarctica and the Arctic. The remarkable life of one of Scotland's gratest heroes remains surprisingly little known; although resolute and ambitious (perhaps even scheming), he shunned publicity and popular fame. Wordie's career as both explorer and academic geologist opened with his participation in Shackleton's epic Endurance expedition of 1914-16, where he proved one of the most resilient of those stranded in appalling conditions on Elephant Island. He continued to lead arduous expeditions to the Arctic well into his forties, while building his reputation as an academic and mentor to new generations of explorers and mountaineers. During and after the Second World War he was instrumental in safeguarding British strategic interests in the Antarctic territories, and later rose to be President of the Royal Geographical Society and Master of St John's College, Cambridge. He died in 1962. This is the first full biography of Wordie to be written, and it makes use of a wide variety"--Provided by the publisher.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
919.804092
Bomb Alley, Falkland Islands 1982 : Aboard HMS Antrim at War /David Yates.
"This is the untold story of the Falklands War as experienced by a below-decks seaman on one of the most important ships to be despatched to the South Atlantic. It is a no-holds-barred account as seen through the eyes of a Royal Navy matelot who shared the terror of the first encounter with Argentinean forces when South Georgia was retaken from the invaders in Operation Paraquat. Then, HMS Antrim led the first attack into the North Falklands Sound where she destroyed enemy defences and later became part of the main force anti-aircraft defences in the infamous 'Bomb Alley' or San Carlos Water. During one of the many air attacks, the ship was struck by a bomb that destroyed her defensive missile system, but through pure chance, the bomb did not explode and remained aboard wedged in the aft 'heads'. All around the stricken ship other RN vessels were taking extreme punishment from the almost continuous onslaught from low-flying Argentinean jets. HMS Antelope, HMS Coventry and the Atlantic Conveyer were all lost within a short period whilst the army was trying to establish a bridgehead."--Provided by the publisher.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
997.11024092
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
Representing slavery : art, artefacts and archives in the collections of the National Maritime Museum /edited by Douglas Hamilton and Robert J. Blyth.
2007. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
326.1:7
Dressed to kill : British naval uniform, masculinity and contemporary fashions, 1748-1857 /Amy Miller.
"[Dressed to kill] seeks to show naval uniforms from a new perspective because it is important that the development of uniform be viewed alongside contemporary civilian fashions. The essays at the beginning not only examine the progression of regulations but also, more significantly, place the uniforms in their economic, social and historical contexts. They are followed by a catalogue of selected uniforms from the rich collections of the National Maritime Museum, which serve to reinforce the themes drawn out in the essays. The last section of line drawings of selected patterns provides an insight into the construction of the garments."--T.p. verso.
2007. • BOOK • 4 copies available.
355.14:391"1748/1857"
The company's island : St Helena, company colonies and the colonial endeavour /Stephen Royle.
Discovered by the Portuguese in 1502 and fought over by the English, French, Dutch and Portuguese before its annexation by the East India Company in 1659, this book reviews the strategic importance of St Helena arising from its location as a vital refuelling stop for ships returning to Europe from India and the East. With no indigenous population the East India Company established a society from scratch and the author explores the themes of law and morality, gender, slavery, resistance and defence on the island set against the context of trade and imperialism. The appendices include tables relating to imports, migration and population, criminal offences, jury service, taxation, slavery and also list those condemned after the 1684 rebellion.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
347.71 EASTINDIA:94
The jail that went to sea : an untold story of the Battle of the Atlantic, 1941-42 /Peter Haining.
"In 1941 the British people had their backs to the wall in their lone fight against the might of Hitler's Germany. America was neutral, at least until the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Glasgow became the starting point for one of the most amazing and, until now, untold episodes of the war. Government officials desperate for men to sail merchant ships across the Atlantic to collect vital equipment and supplies from North America devised a plan to enlist convicts from Barlinnie Prison and use them as crew for a 25,000-ton merchantman, the George Washington. Quite simply a choice of death or glory, this book relates the extraordinary story of those men through the accounts of two survivors, the log and memories of Captain David Bone, and Glasgow police records and documents."--Provided by the publisher.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
940.545.9
Paul Mellon's legacy : a passion for British art : masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art /John Baskett [et al]
"Paul Mellon (1907--1999) was an unparalleled collector of British art. His collection, now at Yale in the museum and study center he founded to house it, rivals those in Britain's national museums and is unquestionably the most comprehensive representation of British art held outside of the United Kingdom. This book and the exhibition that it accompanies celebrate the centenary of his birth. Five introductory essays examine Mellon's extraordinary collecting activity, as well as his role in creating both the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London as gifts to his alma mater (Yale 1929). A lavishly illustrated catalogue section showcases 148 of the most exquisite and important paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, sculpture, rare books, and manuscript material in the Yale Center's collection, including major works by Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, George Stubbs, John Constable, and J. M. W. Turner."--Provided by the publisher.
2007. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
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