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    Representing Africa: Landscape, Exploration and Empire in Southern Africa, 1780-1870

    John McAleer

    Representing Africa examines the ways in which British travellers, explorers and artists viewed southern Africa in a period of evolving and expanding British interest in the region.

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    Picturing India: People, Places, and the World of the East India Company

    John McAleer (University of Southampton)

    The British engagement with India was an intensely visual one. Images of the subcontinent, produced by artists and travelers in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century heyday of the East India Company…

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    Britain’s Maritime Empire: Southern Africa, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, 1763-1820

    John McAleer (University of Southampton)

    Analyses the critical role played by the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope in the development of the British Empire. Focusing on a region that connected…

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    Britain’s Maritime Empire: Southern Africa, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, 1763-1820

    John McAleer (University of Southampton)

    Analyses the critical role played by the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope in the development of the British Empire. Focusing on a region that connected…

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    Atlantic Voyages

    Dr John McAleer

    A history of the East India Company told through experiences of everyday life on the ocean: maritime travel, shipboard conditions, foreign encounters, islands and ports of call, the waters of…

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    The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, c. 1750-1820

    John McAleer

    This book foregrounds the role of the Royal Navy in creating the British Atlantic in the eighteenth century.

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    The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, c. 1750-1820

    John McAleer

    This book foregrounds the role of the Royal Navy in creating the British Atlantic in the eighteenth century.

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    Islands and the British Empire in the Age of Sail

    This volume examines the various ways in which islands (and groups of islands) contributed to the establishment, extension, and maintenance of the British Empire in the age of sail.

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    Curating Empire: Museums and the British Imperial Experience

    Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This collection demonstrates how individuals, their curatorial practices, and intellectual…

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    Captain Cook and the Pacific: Art, Exploration and Empire

    John McAleer,Nigel Rigby

    British Royal Navy Captain James Cook’s voyages of exploration across and around the Pacific Ocean were a marvel of maritime achievement, and provided the first accurate map of the Pacific…

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    Exhibiting the Empire: Cultures of Display and the British Empire

    Examines various ways in which the Empire was displayed in Britain between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, looking at music, satirical prints, exploration, battles and even nascent nationalism. –…

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    Exhibiting the Empire: Cultures of Display and the British Empire

    Examines various ways in which the Empire was displayed in Britain between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, looking at music, satirical prints, exploration, battles and even nascent nationalism. –…

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    Packed and Loaded: Conversations with James M. Cain

    James M Cain,Lecturer in History John McAleer (University of Southampton)

    In these never-before-published interviews, the author of Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and Mildred Pierce discusses his first notions to be a writer, his newspaper days, his Hollywood…

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    Rex Stout: A Majesty’s Life-Millennium Edition

    John J McAleer

    The acclaimed Edgar winning biography of the creator of detective Nero Wolfe, is now published with the title McAleer always wanted. Includes new photos and Introduction by Professor McAlee.

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    Under the Andes

    Rex Stout

    Desiree ran into the cave, anxious to explore, tempted by the legends of Inca gold. Others lived there, however, protecting the gold of their ancestors, now misshapen after generations of…

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    Spreading Canvas: Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting

    Spreading Canvas takes a close look at the tradition of marine painting that flourished in 18th-century Britain. Drawing primarily on the extensive collections of the Yale Center for British Art…

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