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Ames, Glenn J. Colbert, Mercantilism and the French Quest for Asian Trade. DeKalb: Northern Illinois UP, 1996, xiv, 245 pp. French East India Company; scholarly; international approach.
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Anglo-French; commerce; East India Company; economics; expansion; Far East; personality; trade;
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Anglo-French, France , commerce, trade, business, East India Company, charter company, Raj , economics, economic policy, Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, expansion, colony, colonies, colonization, colonisation, imperialism, domination, hegemony , personality, prominent leader, noted person
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Amess, John D. HMS Deodar: Royal Naval Patrol Service Minesweeper Trawler T124. Stevenage: Amess, 2005, 62 pp. Channel convoys & D-Day operations.
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auxiliary, mine, underwater weapon, Royal Navy, Britain, England, ship, boat, vessel, world war 2, second world war
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Amet, Jacques Marie Albert. Le Jutland: Bataille Navale du Mai 31, 1916. Paris: La Renaissance du Livre, 1923, 144 pp. Preface: L. Lacaze; French assessment.
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Anglo-French, France , Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , battles, Jutland, battle, peninsular , world war 1, first world war
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Amherst, Lord, of Hackney & Thomson, Basil, eds. The Discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro de Mendana in 1568. 2 vols. Publications of the Hakluyt Society, 2 ser, vols. 7 & 8. London: Bedford; Nendeln: Kraus, 1901, 1967. For Hakluyt Society.
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16th C. (1500-1599); exploration; Far East; Hakluyt Society publication;
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16th century, sixteenth, exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Hakluyt Society publication
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Amis, Kingsley. The James Bond Dossier: On the James Bond Novels of Ian Fleming. New York: NAL; London: Jonathan Cape; London: Pan, 1965, 1966, 159 pp.
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Bond, James, nautical fiction , intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , nautical fiction, sea fiction , personality, prominent leader, noted person
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Ammundsen, Anne. 'Saving Captain Asgill', History Today Vol. 61 (December, 2011) pp. 38-42
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18th C. (1700-1799); American War of Independence; officer; Royal Navy;
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18th century, eighteenth, american war of independence, American Revolutionary War, revolution, 13 colonies, thirteen colonies, Royal Navy, Britain, England, officer, quarterdeck, leader
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Amory, Thomas Coffin. The Life of Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, Baronet: His English and American Ancestors. Boston: Cupples, 1886, 141 pp.
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19th C. (1800-1899); Anglo-American; memoir; officer; personality; Royal Navy;
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Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, 19th century, nineteenth, officer, quarterdeck, leader , personality, prominent leader, noted person , Royal Navy, Britain, England, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography
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Amos, N. Scott, Pettegree, Andrew & Nierop, Henk van, eds. The Education of a Christian Society: Humanism and the Reformation in Britain and the Netherlands: Papers Delivered to the 13th Anglo-Dutch Historical Conference, 1997. Britain and the Netherlands, # 13. Aldershot: Ashford, 1999, xii, 274 pp. Essays.
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Anglo-Dutch, Netherlands, Low Country, Holland, association, society, group, organization, organisation, conference, conference paper, symposium, education, educate, training, train, teaching, teach, schooling, school, learning, learn, religion, chaplain, chapel , historian, history, historical
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Amos, Philip. "Recent Work on the Great Game in Asia." IHR, 2 (April 1980): 308-20. Extensive coverage.
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19th C. (1800-1899); Anglo-Russian; Far East; Great Game; imperialism;
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19th century, nineteenth, Anglo-Russian, Russia, tsarist, czarist, Soviet , Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Great Game, competition over Central Asia, Russia, England, Britain, British Empire, imperialism, colonialism, colonization, colonisation, colonial expansion, informal empire
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Amphlett, Clive & Woolley, Douglas John Faulkner. Titanic: One Man's Dream: Douglas John Faulkner Woolley: A Biography. Ilford: Seawise, 1998, vi, 110 pp. Diving information: S.J. Bilsby; curious, conflicting, trite, bizarre; dedicated to dog.
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20th century, twentieth, shipbuilding, shipbuilder, shipbuilders, Titanic, passenger liner, wreck, tragedy, disaster , wreck, shipwreck, nautical archaeology , voyage
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Amundsen, Roald Engelbregt Gravning & Ellsworth, Lincoln. The First Flight across the Polar Sea. London: Hutchinson, 1927, 274 pp.
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20th century, twentieth, aviation, aircraft, airplane, plane, naval aviation, carrier aviation, Arctic, explore, exploration, expedition, polar, North Pole, Top of the World , exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure
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Amundsen, Roald Engelbregt Gravning. "Expedition to the North Magnetic Pole." Geographic Journal (December 1902).
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20th C. (1900-1999); Arctic; exploration; navigation; science ;
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20th century, twentieth, Arctic, explore, exploration, expedition, polar, North Pole, Top of the World , exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , navigation, navigate, longitude, latitude, science
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Amundsen, Roald Engelbregt Gravning. My Life as an Explorer. London: Heinemann; Christchurch: Thimble, 1927, 1996, 282 pp.
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20th century, twentieth, Arctic, explore, exploration, expedition, polar, North Pole, Top of the World , exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography
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Amundsen, Roald Engelbregt Gravning. "The Northwest Passage": Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Gjoa, 1903-1907. 2 vols. London: Constable, 1907-1908, xxii, 732 pp.
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20th C. (1900-1999); Arctic; exploration; memoir; Northwest Passage; ship; voyage;
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20th century, twentieth, Arctic, explore, exploration, expedition, polar, North Pole, Top of the World , exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , Northwest Passage, exploration, search for access to East, route to East, ship, boat, vessel, voyage, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography
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Amundsen, Roald Engelbregt Gravning. The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912. 2 vols. London: Murray; New York: Lee Keedick New York: McCelland & Stewart, 1912, 1913, 1976, xxxviii, 449 pp. Trans: A.G. Chater.
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20th century, twentieth, Antarctic, explore, exploration, expedition, polar, South Pole , exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , Norway, campaign, invasion by Germany, air-land-sea operation
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Amundsen, Roald Engelbregt Gravning. "To the North Magnetic Pole and Through the Northwest Passage." Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, 29 (1907): 485-518. Reprint: Seattle: Shorey, 1967.
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20th C. (1900-1999); Arctic; exploration; Northwest Passage; voyage;
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20th century, twentieth, Arctic, explore, exploration, expedition, polar, North Pole, Top of the World , exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , Northwest Passage, exploration, search for access to East, route to East, voyage
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Amy, R., Bahatnagar, R., Damkjar, E. & Beattie, O. "The Last Franklin Expedition: Report of a Postmortem Examination of a Crew Member." Canadian Medical Association J, 135 (July 1986): 115-17.
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19th C. (1800-1899); Arctic; exploration; Franklin, John; memoir; science ;
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19th century, nineteenth, Arctic, explore, exploration, expedition, polar, North Pole, Top of the World , exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , Franklin, John, Arctic expedition, search for Franklin, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , science
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"An Epic Tragedy of the Sea: Wireless, the Wonder Worker." Marconigraph, 2 (May 1912): 36-40.
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An Alphabet of Ships. Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson; Greenwich: NMM, c. 1865, 2004, 2005, 16 pp. Folio; intro: Pieter van der Merwe; facsimile of original, children's rhyming book to teach letters; charming & colorful.
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19th C. (1800-1899); education; juvenile literature; naval lore; ship;
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19th century, nineteenth, education, educate, training, train, teaching, teach, schooling, school, learning, learn, juvenile literature, children's, junior, ship, boat, vessel, naval lore, tradition, oral tradition, sea story, sea term, naval dictionary
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An Answer to Mr. Pitt's Attack upom Earl St. Vincent, and the Admiralty, in his Motion for an Enquiry into the State of the Naval Defence of the Country on the 15th of March, 1804. London: Ebers, 1804. A pamphlet, one of many at the time; political-naval conflict.
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19th C. (1800-1899); Admiralty; critique of Royal Navy; First Lord; Jervis, John; Royal Navy; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
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19th century, nineteenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, critique of Royal Navy, criticism, analysis, critical analysis, controversy, Jervis, John, Earl of St. Vincent, First Lord, commander, Mediterranean fleet , First Lord, civilian head of Admiralty , Royal Navy, Britain, England, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France
| 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 |