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Best, George. The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher in Search of a Passage to Cathay and India by the North-West, AD 1576-1578. 2 vols. London: Argonaut; Amsterdam: Israel; New York: Franklin, 1938, 1963, 1971, cxxxvi, 459 pp. Folio; ed: Vilhljalmur Stefansson; Frobisher, 1535-1594.
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16th C. (1500-1599); age of sail; exploration; Frobisher, Martin; Northwest Passage;
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16th century, sixteenth, age of sail, exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , Frobisher, Martin, Northwest Passage, exploration, search for access to East, route to East
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Best, Nicholas. Trafalgar: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sea Battle in History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005, xix, 344 pp. Minute-by-minute chronology; bicentennial.
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19th C. (1800-1899); age of sail; Nelson, Horatio; Trafalgar; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
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19th century, nineteenth, age of sail, Nelson, Horatio, Trafalgar, battle, campaign , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France
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Bethell, John P., ed. John P. Bethell Watercraft Information Resource Project. In progress; sponsored by SNR; electronic database of bibliographies of terms; watercraft of the world; c. 12,000 items; in 2008 Resource deposited with NMM, Cornwall.
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bibliography, list, listing
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Bethell, John P., ed. The Mariner's Mirror on CD-Rom, 1911-2000. Journal of the Society for Nautical Research. Box set of 5 CDs. London: Chatham, 2001, 45,000 pp. 11,000 articles, 2000 illustrations; search facility & internal reference links.
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15th C. (1400-1499); 16th C. (1500-1599); 17th C. (1600-1699); 18th C. (1700-1799); 19th C. (1800-1899); 20th C. (1900-1999); 21st C. (2000-); Ancient (100 B.C. - 499 A.D.); maritime history; Middle Ages (400-1399);
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maritime history, naval history , 21st century, twenty-first, twenty first, 20th century, twentieth, 19th century, nineteenth, 18th century, eighteenth, 17th century, seventeenth, 16th century, sixteenth, 15th century, fifteenth, ancient (100 b.c. - 499 a.d.), middle ages (400-1399)
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Bethell, Leslie M. "Britain, Portugal and the Suppression of the Brazilian Slave Trade: The Origins of Lord Palmerston's Act of 1839." EnHR, 80 (October 1965): 761-84.
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19th century, nineteenth, Anglo-Portuguese, Portugal , slave trade, Atlantic slave trade, Middle Passage
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Bethell, Leslie M. "Great Britain and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1830-1852." Ph.D. diss, London, 1963. (ASLIB 13-449).
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19th century, nineteenth, slave trade, Atlantic slave trade, Middle Passage
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Bethell, Leslie M. The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade: Britain, Brazil and the Slave Trade Question, 1807-1869. London: Cambridge UP, 1970, 424 pp. Slave Trade to Brazil continued on large scale, e.g., half-million after 1830; 1840-1880: British captured 400 vessels; patrols of RN.
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19th century, nineteenth, slave trade, Atlantic slave trade, Middle Passage
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Bethell, Leslie M. "The Decline and Fall of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Brazil." TRHS, 6 ser, 1 (1990): 71-88.
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19th century, nineteenth, slave trade, Atlantic slave trade, Middle Passage
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Bethell, P. The Development of the Torpedo. Pamphlet. 1948. Collection of 11 articles in Engineering, 1945-1946.
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weapon, arms trade , torpedo, underwater weapon, propelled weapon
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Bethencourt, Francisco & Curto, Diego Ramada, eds. Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998, 2006, 2007, xx, 536 pp. First European maritime empire.
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15th C. (1400-1499); 16th C. (1500-1599); 17th C. (1600-1699); 18th C. (1700-1799); Anglo-Portuguese; Empire; trade;
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empire, 18th century, eighteenth, 17th century, seventeenth, 16th century, sixteenth, 15th century, fifteenth, Anglo-Portuguese, Portugal
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Bethune, Drinkwater. A Narrative of the Battle of St. Vincent. London: Conway, 1797, 1969, xii, 97 pp. Facsimile.
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18th C. (1700-1799); age of sail; Jervis, John; memoir; Nelson, Horatio; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
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18th century, eighteenth, age of sail, Jervis, John, Earl of St. Vincent, First Lord, commander, Mediterranean fleet , Nelson, Horatio, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography
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Betts, Jonathan. "Arnold and Earnshaw: The Practicable Solution." See W. Andrewes, Quest for Longitude, pp. 311-30.
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exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure
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Betts, Jonathan. Harrison. Greenwich: NMM, 1993, 1997, 24 pp. Concise biography of John Harrison, 1693-1776.
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18th century, eighteenth, exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure
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Betts, Jonathan. "The Eighteenth-Century Transits of Venus, the Voyage of Captain James Cook and the Early Development of the Marine Chronometer." Antiquarian Horology, 21 (1993): 660-69.
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18th century, eighteenth, Cook, James, exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure
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Betts, Jonathan. Time Restored: The Harrison Timekeeper and R.T. Gould: The Man Who Knew (Almost) Everything. Oxford: Oxford 2006, 464 pp. For NMM.
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18th century, eighteenth
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Betts, Richard K. & Mahnken, Thomas G., eds. Paradoxes of Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel. London: Cassell, 2003, 256 pp. Essays; pre-1st World War; threats from Germany & Japan.
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20th C. (1900-1999); Anglo-German; Anglo-Japanese; intelligence; World War I;
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20th century, twentieth, intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , Anglo-Japanese, Japan , world war 1, first world war
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Betts, Richard K. "Innovation, Assessment, and Decision." See R. Betts, Cruise Missiles, pp. 1-30.
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20th century, twentieth, weapon, arms trade , technology, advance, modernization, modernisation
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Betts, Richard K., ed. Cruise Missiles: Technology, Strategy, Politics. Washington: Brookings, 1981, xvi, 612 pp. 16 essays, some cited.
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20th century, twentieth, weapon, arms trade , technology, advance, modernization, modernisation
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Beuken, Jozef Hubert Aloysius. De Hanze en Vlaanderen. Maastricht: Aelst, 1950, 205 pp. Relations between Hanseatic League & Bruges, 14th-16th centuries.
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15th century, fifteenth, 16th century, sixteenth, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing
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Bevan, A. Beckford & Wolryche-Whitmore, H.B., eds. A Sailor of King George: The Journals of Captain Frederick Hoffman, RN, 1793-1814. Classics of Naval Literature Series. Annapolis: NIP, 1901, 1998, 376 pp. Intro: Gerald Jordan; midshipman to captain; at Trafalgar, plus 17 others; written in 1836, published in 1901.
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18th C. (1700-1799); 19th C. (1800-1899); age of sail; memoir; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
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18th century, eighteenth, 19th century, nineteenth, age of sail, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography
| Abbreviations | |
| AHR | American Historical Review |
| Alb | Albion |
| alt | alternate |
| Am Nep | American Neptune |
| AQ & DJ | Army Quarterly and Defence Journal |
| ASLIB | Association of Libraries (Dissertations & Master's Theses) |
| BIHR | Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research |
| Can His Rev | Canadian Historical Review |
| Can J His | Canadian Journal of History |
| comp | Compiled by |
| DAI | Dissertation Abstracts International |
| EcHR | Economic History Review |
| ed | editor or edited by |
| EnHR | English Historical Review |
| HisAHR | Hispanic American Historical Review |
| HJ | Historical Journal (Cambridge Historical Journal) |
| His Res | Historical Research |
| His Tod | History Today |
| Intell & Nat Sec | Intelligence and National Security |
| IJ Mar His | International Journal of Maritime History |
| IJ Nau Arch | International Journal of Nautical Archaeology |
| IHR | International History Review |
| intro | introduction |
| J Am His | Journal of American History |
| J Asian His | Journal of Asian History |
| JBS | Journal of British Studies |
| J Cont His | Journal of Contemporary History |
| J Econ His | Journal of Economic History |
| JI & CH | Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History |
| J Mar Res | Journal for Maritime Research |
| J Mil His | Journal of Military History |
| J Mod His | Journal of Modern History |
| JRUSI | Journal of the Royal United Service Institution or Institute |
| J Soc His | Journal of Social History |
| JSAHR | Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research |
| J Stra Stu | Journal of Strategic Studies |
| J Trans His | Journal of Transport History |
| J Wor His | Journal of World History |
| MM | Mariner's Mirror |
| Mil Aff | Military Affairs |
| NHS | Naval History Symposium (USNA) |
| NMM | National Maritime Museum |
| Nav Rev | Naval Review |
| NWCR | Naval War College Review (US) |
| Nel Dis | Nelson Dispatch |
| NIP | Naval Institute Press |
| Nor Mar | Northern Mariner |
| Pac His Rev | Pacific Historical Review |
| P & P | Past and Present |
| Traf Chron | Trafalgar Chronicle |
| trans | translated by |
| UP | University Press |
| USNIP | Proceedings of the Naval Institute |
| Vic Stu | Victorian Studies |
| War & Soc | War and Society |
| War in His | War in History |
| W&MQ | William and Mary Quarterly |
| WSS | World Ship Society |