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Airy, George Biddell. Essays on the Invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar, . . . . Plautius, . . . . and by Claudius Caesar. . . . London, 1865. Collection of letters & papers; included paper on places of departure & landing of Caesar.
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amphibious; Ancient (100 B.C. - 499 A.D.); English Channel; Imperial Defence; invasion; personality;
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ancient (100 b.c. - 499 a.d.), amphibious, invasion from sea, landing, attack from sea, landing craft, invasion, armada, landing , Imperial Defence, Committee of Imperial Defence, English Channel, Imperial Defence, fortification , personality, prominent leader, noted person
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Airy, George Biddell. "On the Place of Julius Caesar's Departure from Gaul for the Invasion of Britain, and the Place of His Landing in Britian: With an Appendix on the Battle of Hastings." Archaeologia, 34 (1852). By prolific observer.
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amphibious; Ancient (100 B.C. - 499 A.D.); English Channel; Imperial Defence; invasion; personality; port;
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amphibious, invasion from sea, landing, attack from sea, landing craft, ancient (100 b.c. - 499 a.d.), English Channel, Imperial Defence, fortification , Imperial Defence, Committee of Imperial Defence, invasion, armada, landing , port, commercial center, seaport, trade center, entrepot , personality, prominent leader, noted person
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Airy, George Biddell. The Transits of Venus, 1874 and 1882: On the Preparitary Arrangements for the Observations of the Transits. London: Strangeways & Walden, 1868, 1877, 23 pp.
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19th C. (1800-1899); exploration; instrument; navigation; science ;
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19th century, nineteenth, exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , instrument, navigation, compass, clock , science , navigation, navigate, longitude, latitude
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Aitchison Hendrie, Andrew W. "Coastal Command, 1939-1945: The Cindrella Service." Ph.D. diss, Kent, 2004.
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Admiralty; anti-submarine warfare; aviation; Battle of the Atlantic; U-boat; World War II;
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aviation, aircraft, airplane, plane, naval aviation, carrier aviation, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Battle of the Atlantic, U-boat, anti-submarine warfare, Royal Navy, United States Navy, US Navy , anti-submarine warfare, submarine, ASW, sonar , U-boat, submarine, German underwater warship , world war 2, second world war
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Aitchison, David. Royal Standard, Red Ensign with the Queen in the Gothic. London: Pall Mall, 1958, xii, 248 pp. Queen Elizabeth II, Round the World tour, 1953, Shaw Savill's Gothic.
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20th C. (1900-1999); exploration; navigation; personality; Royal Navy; ship;
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20th century, twentieth, exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , navigation, navigate, longitude, latitude, personality, prominent leader, noted person , ship, boat, vessel, Royal Navy, Britain, England
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Aitchison, Robert. A British Eyewitness at the Battle of New Orleans: The Memoir of Royal Navy Admiral Robert Aitchison, 1808-1827. New Orleans: Historic New Orleans, 2004, 149 pp. Ed: Gene A. Smith.
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amphibious; Anglo-American; battles; invasion; memoir; War of 1812;
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Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, battles, amphibious, invasion from sea, landing, attack from sea, landing craft, invasion, armada, landing , War of 1812, Anglo-American war, England, Britain, America, United States, US, USA, impressment, battle, frigate action, campaign, blockade , memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography
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Aitken, Jonathan. John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace. London: Continuum, 2007, xix, 308 pp. Foreword: Philip Yancey; useful & popular study of famous figure; to RN, flogged, to slaving ship, to abolitionist; wrote "Amazing Grace."
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19th C. (1800-1899); memoir; merchant marine; music; Royal Navy; slave trade;
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19th century, nineteenth, merchant marine, Royal Navy, Britain, England, slave trade, Atlantic slave trade, Middle Passage, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , music, culture, arts
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Aiton, A.S. "The Assiento Treaty as Reflected in the Papers of Lord Shelburne." HisAHR, 8 (1928): 167-77. Assiento, contract to supply slaves to Spanish colonies.
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18th C. (1700-1799); Anglo-Spanish; commerce; diplomacy; imperialism; slave trade; trade;
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18th century, eighteenth, Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia , commerce, trade, business, slave trade, Atlantic slave trade, Middle Passage, imperialism, colonialism, colonization, colonisation, colonial expansion, informal empire , diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing
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Aizawa, Yoshio. "The Path Towards an 'Anti-British' Strategy by the Japanese Navy between the Wars." See I. Gow, History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, pp. 139-50.
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Anglo-Japanese; diplomacy; interwar; Royal Navy; Singapore; strategy;
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Anglo-Japanese, Japan , diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , interwar, Royal Navy, Britain, England, Singapore, campaign, battle, siege, naval base, commercial port, entrepot, disastrous surrender , strategy, strategic
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Akehurst, John. We Won a War: The Campaign in Oman, 1965-1975. Salisbury: Michael Russell, 1982, xxiii, 198 pp. Foreword: Lord Carver; Dhofur War.
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20th C. (1900-1999); diplomacy; Imperial Defence; imperialism; Middle East; oil ; Royal Navy;
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20th century, twentieth, imperialism, colonialism, colonization, colonisation, colonial expansion, informal empire , Imperial Defence, Committee of Imperial Defence, diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , oil , Middle East, Royal Navy, Britain, England
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Aker, Raymond & Von Der Porten, Edward. Discovering Francis Drake's California Harbor. Palo Alto: Drake Navigators Guild, 2000, vi 73 pp. On 17 June 1579, speculation: Drake landed at Drake's Bay, Marin County, California, naming it Nova Albion; controversy but sanctioned, e.g., by S.E. Morison, A. Villiers & G. Davidson; "Drake Plate" of 1936 was a fake.
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16th C. (1500-1599); Drake, Francis; exploration; navigation; voyage;
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16th century, sixteenth, Drake, Francis, navigation, navigate, longitude, latitude, voyage, exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure
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Akerman, James Richard & Buisseret, David, eds. Monarchs, Ministers and Maps: A Cartographic Exhibition at the Newberry Library on the Occasion. . . . Lectures in the History of Cartography: Catalog. Chicago: Newberry Library, 1985, xi, 49 pp.
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association, society, group, organization, organisation, conference, conference paper, symposium, cartography, map, mapping, chart, geography, geographical , Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure
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Akerman, James Richard & Karrow, Robert W., Jr., eds Maps: Finding Our Place in the World. Chicago: Chicago UP, 2007, ix, 400 pp. Folio, lavishly illustrated; foreword: John W. McCarthy, Jr.; exhibition, Newberry Library; outstanding overview.
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cartography, map, mapping, chart, geography, geographical , exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , general history, general survey, survey
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Akerman, James Richard, ed. Cartographies of Travel and Navigation. Chicago: Chicago UP, 2006, ix, 372 pp. Essays; pathbreaking study; mapping of sea routes.
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16th C. (1500-1599); 17th C. (1600-1699); 18th C. (1700-1799); cartography; navigation; science ; voyage;
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16th century, sixteenth, 17th century, seventeenth, 18th century, eighteenth, cartography, map, mapping, chart, geography, geographical , navigation, navigate, longitude, latitude, voyage, science
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Akerman, James Richard, ed. The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire. The Kenneth Nebenzahl Lectures in the History of Cartography. Chicago: Chicago UP, 2009, viii, 367 pp. 6 essays, some cited; lectue series, History of Cartography for Newberry Library; noted that History of Cartography Project & other things had generated much new interest.
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association; cartography; expansion; general history; imperialism;
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cartography, map, mapping, chart, geography, geographical , general history, general survey, survey, association, society, group, organization, organisation, conference, conference paper, symposium, expansion, colony, colonies, colonization, colonisation, imperialism, domination, hegemony , imperialism, colonialism, colonization, colonisation, colonial expansion, informal empire
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Akerman, James Richard. "On the Shoulders of a Titan: Viewing the World of the Past in the Atlas Structure." Ph.D diss, Pennsylvania State, 2 vols., 1991, xxxi, 688 pp.
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cartography, map, mapping, chart, geography, geographical , general history, general survey, survey
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Akiyama, Yuriko. Feeding the Nation: Nutrition and Health in Britain before World War One. London: I.B. Tauris, 2008, x, 293 pp. Cooks & health in RN.
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19th century, nineteenth, health, sickness, illness, medicine, surgeon, victualling, food ration, diet for naval personnel, nutrition
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Akiyama, Yuriko. "Trained Cooks and Healthy Boys: Reforming the Mess in the Royal Navy before the First World War." MM, 94 (November 2008): 420-31.
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19th C. (1800-1899); condition; health; logistics; Royal Navy; victualling;
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19th century, nineteenth, condition, life below deck, lower deck, atmosphere, enlisted life , health, sickness, illness, medicine, surgeon, Royal Navy, Britain, England, victualling, food ration, diet for naval personnel, nutrition , logistics, supply, supplies
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Akrigg, G.P.V. & Akrigg, Helen B. HMS Virago in the Pacific, 1851-1855: To the Queen Charlottes and Beyond. Victoria: Sono Nis, 1992, 209 pp.
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19th century, nineteenth, exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , Royal Navy, Britain, England, ship, boat, vessel
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Aksakal, Mustafa. The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War. Cambridge Military Histories Series. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008, xv, 216 pp. Well researched, well organized, new perspectives; role of Germany.
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Anglo-German; Gallipoli; Mediterranean Sea; Middle East; World War I;
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Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , Gallipoli, Gallipoli campaign, Dardanelles, Dardanelles campaign , Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean theater, Mediterranean command , Middle East, world war 1, first world war
| 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 |