John Mcaleer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1156537 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Mcaleer |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Mcaleer |
| ASSINATURA | MCALEER J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-6971-7997 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 69 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Empire of Labor
‘A Desire of Preserving the Remembrance’
This article explores the role of images and themes of visuality in representing East India Company voyages to Asia in the Age of Sail. The discussion draws extensively on the accounts of two travellers: James Forbes and Richard Rose. In addition to the sketches and drawings suffusing their accounts, both men employed the language and metaphors of vision and visuality in order to mediate their journeys. These strategies framed their experiences o…
The Little Nothings of Our Life’
In 1849, John Colpoys Haughton embarked for a period of rest and recuperation at the Cape of Good Hope. This article uses correspondence between Haughton, an Indian army officer in South Africa, and his family in Britain to explore personal experiences of furlough and to foreground the role of the Cape Colony as a site of recovery and recuperation. Haughton’s example emphasises the importance of health and well-being in facilitating, or curtailin…
The troubles of collecting’
In recent decades, historians have become increasingly interested in the logistical challenges and difficulties encountered by those responsible for the collection, preservation and safe transport of specimens from the field to the museum or laboratory. This article builds on this trend by looking beyond apparent successes to consider the practices and practicalities of shipboard travel and maritime and coastal collecting activities. The discussi…
Chapter 6 The Empire Reads Back
As pretty a thing as I have ever seen’
During the course of long voyages through the Atlantic Ocean – on their way to Africa, Asia and Australasia – British travellers experienced a variety of novel natural phenomena: the heat of the tropics, storms off the Cape, the beauty of shipboard sunsets, and unfamiliar constellations in the heavens. But it was the maritime animals that shared their shipboard space and inhabited the waters of the surrounding Atlantic that elicited the most sust…
Negotiating Waters
Provincial Society and Empire
For many years, historians defined and interpreted the East India Company and its activities by considering what went on in the boardroom of East India House or the corridors of parliamentary power
Advancing Empire
The Channel
The waters separating the south coast of England from the north coast of France have helped to define relations between the two countries for centuries. However, as Renaud Morieux argues in this work, these relations have been characterised almost exclusively by rivalry, conflict and contestation between the two states. Morieux’s book sets out to correct that two-dimensional interpretation and to present a more rounded and nuanced view of the Cha…
Feeding Globalization
Curating Empire
Representing Africa
Southern Africa played a varied but vital role in Britain's maritime and imperial stories. The region was one of the most intricate pieces in the British imperial strategic jigsaw, and representations of southern African landscape and maritime spaces reflect its multifaceted position. This book examines the ways in which British travellers, explorers and artists viewed southern Africa in a period of evolving and expanding British interest in the …
Britain's history and memory of transatlantic slavery
"Britain’s history and memory of transatlantic slavery." International Journal of Heritage Studies, 23(6), pp. 607–608
Global Connections
For over two centuries, the commercial and cultural relationship between Europe and Asia was mediated through the agency of various East India companies. As trading ventures chartered by their respective governments, these companies were, at their most basic, organizations interested in objects. Their main business involved the transportation of huge quantities of commodities—principally spices, tea and textiles in the British case—back to Europe…
Atlantic Periphery, Asian Gateway
When Britain captured the Cape of Good Hope in 1795, it acquired a key strategic asset for defending and expanding trade with Asia. The navy was one of the principal agents charged with capitalising on this advantage and controlling the adjacent seas. But it also performed other roles. It linked this part of the Atlantic periphery to Britain, helping to foster a shared sense of British identity. It helped to explore and exploit the resources of t…
Britain's Maritime Empire
A fascinating new study in which John McAleer explores the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope and its critical role in the establishment, consolidation and maintenance of the British Empire in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Situated at the centre of a maritime chain that connected seas and continents, this gateway bridged the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, which, with its commercial links and strategic requirements,…
Introduction
This chapter introduces the chapters that follow, foregrounding the crucial role of the Royal Navy in creating and consolidating the British Atlantic in the second half of the eighteenth century. It outlines the closely entwined connections between the nurturing of naval supremacy, the politics of commercial protection, and the development of national and imperial identities—all crucial factors in the consolidation and transformation of the Briti…
Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, C. 1750-1820
A young slip of botany’
This article explores the relationship between science and empire, through the prism of British botanical engagement with the South Atlantic in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It investigates the logistics of plant exchanges, as information, expertise, and specimens followed the maritime contours of the British empire. The discussion traces the nascent network-building undertaken by officials, residents, and visitors on St Hel…
The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, c. 1750–1820
This book foregrounds the role of the Royal Navy in creating the British Atlantic in the eighteenth century. It outlines the closely entwined connections between the nurturing of naval supremacy, the
Empires of Vision
Looking east
The British interest and presence in the South Atlantic Ocean and in South America represent, in the words of Eliga Gould, the kind of “entangled histories” increasingly recognised and studied by scholars of imperial, colonial and maritime history. From the beginning of the eighteenth century, the region was most frequently seen as the “key” to the Pacific Ocean. This paper, however, focuses on the place of this oceanic area, its islands and its …
The Princeton companion to Atlantic history
Disease, War, and the Imperial State
The Amistad Rebellion
The genesis of Marcus Rediker's new book is almost as complex as the incident it charts. In many ways, the book under review was directly inspired by Rediker's hugely successful 2007 book, The Slav
The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, c. 1750–1820
This book foregrounds the role of the Royal Navy in creating the British Atlantic in the eighteenth century. It outlines the closely entwined connections between the nurturing of naval supremacy, the
Exhibiting the empire
Exhibiting the empire considers how a whole range of cultural products – from paintings, prints, photographs, panoramas and ‘popular’ texts to ephemera, newspapers and the press, theatre and music, exhibitions, institutions and architecture – were used to record, celebrate and question the development of the British Empire. It represents a significant and original contribution to our understanding of the relationship between culture and empire. W…
Stargazers at the world's end’
This article argues that the study of astronomical observing instruments, their transportation around the globe and the personal and professional networks created by such exchanges are useful conceptual tools in exploring the role of science in the nineteenth-century British Empire. The shipping of scientific instruments highlights the physical and material connections that bound the empire together. Large, heavy and fragile objects, such as tran…
The Key to India’
Movements of people, goods, and ideas across the oceans of the world were the means by which British interests were cemented. This article focuses on one of those strategic and military transoceanic networks. It examines the pivotal role played by the Cape of Good Hope in supplying Britain's Indian Empire with troops: either recruited from existing garrisons or transferred in the case of security emergencies. Tracing the arcs of these connections…
Encore Lindisfarne Priory and the Problem of its Nave Vaults
An examination of at least six views of Lindisfarne Priory dating from the late eighteenth century, at which time most of the nave was still standing, led to the surprising conclusion in an earlier study that the nave was covered by groin vaults. Because of the unequivocal evidence of ribbed vaults in the choir, transept arms and crossing, as well as in the nave aisles, it would be expected that the form of the nave vault was the same. Since the …
Feeding Globalization
Representing Africa
Southern Africa played a varied but vital role in Britain's maritime and imperial stories. The region was one of the most intricate pieces in the British imperial strategic jigsaw, and representations of southern African landscape and maritime spaces reflect its multifaceted position. This book examines the ways in which British travellers, explorers and artists viewed southern Africa in a period of evolving and expanding British interest in the …
A young slip of botany’
This article explores the relationship between science and empire, through the prism of British botanical engagement with the South Atlantic in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It investigates the logistics of plant exchanges, as information, expertise, and specimens followed the maritime contours of the British empire. The discussion traces the nascent network-building undertaken by officials, residents, and visitors on St Hel…
Looking east
The British interest and presence in the South Atlantic Ocean and in South America represent, in the words of Eliga Gould, the kind of “entangled histories” increasingly recognised and studied by scholars of imperial, colonial and maritime history. From the beginning of the eighteenth century, the region was most frequently seen as the “key” to the Pacific Ocean. This paper, however, focuses on the place of this oceanic area, its islands and its …
The North Portal of Durham Cathedral and the Problem of ‘Sanctuary’ in Medieval Britain
A small room (which has since been destroyed) located over the north portal of Durham Cathedral has been explained as a watching-room for fugitives fleeing to seek sanctuary at the cathedral that housed the shrine of one of England's pre-eminent saints, Cuthbert. The source behind this identification is an account of the customs of Durham written only c 1593. There is no earlier documentary evidence indicating a function for this room. An examina…
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journal Article Ralph Waldo Emerson: Days of Encounter. By John McAleer. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1984. xx + 748 pp. Illustrations, chart, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50.) Get access Lewis Perry Lewis Perry Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 2, September 1985, Pages 410–411, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903415 Published: 01 September 1985
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Ethelbert Tower of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury
The great Romanesque church of the abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, was begun shortly after 1070 and was probably substantially complete by the end of the century. Now almost totally destroyed, its west façade was an imposing one with two great towers. One of these, the so-called Ethelbert Tower, survived the general destruction following the Dissolution mostly intact. Its gradual decay, collapse, and final demolition in 1822 is recorded in a s…
A unique facade in Great Britain
The early Gothic façade of Holyrood Abbey was originally distinguished by two large towers. Although many large churches built in the British Isles during the previous (12th) century had two western towers, they were generally built over the westernmost bays of the nave aisles. In the case of a few buildings dating to the later 12th and early 13th centuries, the towers flanked the last bays of the aisles, thereby creating a wide 'screen' fagade. …
Particularly English? Screen Façades of the type of Salisbury and Wells Cathedrals
Two of the best-known façades dating from the English Gothic periods, those of the cathedrals of Salisbury and Wells, are in the shape of broad rectangles covered by rows of arcading. Both are wider than the naves behind them, and both western walls hide the differences in height between the naves and lower side aisles. Hence their designation as ‘screen’ façades. At Salisbury, the more modest of the two, the rectangular field is laterally define…
Jane Austen's Lovers, and Other Studies in Fiction from Austen to le Carre
Encore Lindisfarne Priory and the Problem of its Nave Vaults
An examination of at least six views of Lindisfarne Priory dating from the late eighteenth century, at which time most of the nave was still standing, led to the surprising conclusion in an earlier study that the nave was covered by groin vaults. Because of the unequivocal evidence of ribbed vaults in the choir, transept arms and crossing, as well as in the nave aisles, it would be expected that the form of the nave vault was the same. Since the …
Towards an architectural history of Kilwinning Abbey
An attempt to chronicle the Tironensian Abbey's construction -- particularly that of the church. `Appendix 1: the area between the south gable and the chapter-house' (864--6), and `Appendix 2: the south-west stair turret of the transept' (866--8) conclude proceedings
L. N. Cottingham's Central Tower for Rochester Cathedral
In a recent paper in this journal, the crossing tower built at Rochester Cathedral in the early nineteenth century by L. N. Cottingham was identified as constituting an essay in the Perpendicular style and, furthermore, one based on elements from the medieval tower which it replaced. This paper identifies the style of the tower as Decorated and suggests that Cottingham's design was a specific response to context, one more strongly motivated by st…
The So-Called Gundulf's Tower at Rochester Cathedral. A Reconsideration of its History, Date and Function
Since the early eighteenth century, on the basis of no particular evidence, the tower standing uncomfortably close to the north choir aisle at Rochester has been attributed to Bishop Gundulf, the builder of the first Romanesque cathedral church begun c. 1080. Recently, it has been suggested that the tower dates to the mid-twelfth century and was erected as a bell tower. This paper assembles the documented history of the tower, speculates about it…
The Tradition of Detached Bell Towers at Cathedral and Monastic Churches in Medieval England and Scotland (1066–1539)
Although it is generally well-known that a number of cathedrals and major abbeys in medieval England especially had detached bell towers, the towers themselves have never been considered as a group. Nor has a ‘complete’ listing been attempted. Their existence is difficult to explain because the majority of these buildings also had central towers and some had western towers. No doubt because so many of the detached towers have been destroyed, they…
The Tradition of Detached Bell Towers at Cathedral and Monastic Churches in Medieval England and Scotland (1066–1539)
Although it is generally well-known that a number of cathedrals and major abbeys in medieval England especially had detached bell towers, the towers themselves have never been considered as a group. Nor has a ‘complete’ listing been attempted. Their existence is difficult to explain because the majority of these buildings also had central towers and some had western towers. No doubt because so many of the detached towers have been destroyed, they…
An Architectural History of Peterborough Cathedral . Lisa A. Reilly
The North Portal of Durham Cathedral and the Problem of ‘Sanctuary’ in Medieval Britain
A small room (which has since been destroyed) located over the north portal of Durham Cathedral has been explained as a watching-room for fugitives fleeing to seek sanctuary at the cathedral that housed the shrine of one of England's pre-eminent saints, Cuthbert. The source behind this identification is an account of the customs of Durham written only c 1593. There is no earlier documentary evidence indicating a function for this room. An examina…
Surviving Medieval Free-standing Bell Towers at Parish Churches in England and Wales
Between the Conquest and the Dissolution, at least seven cathedrals and eight abbeys constucted free-standing bell towers. This phenomenon, however, was not limited to major establishments for, during the same period, free-standing towers were raised at a number of parish churches—at least thirty survive. This is a phenomenon without parallel on the Continent where, except for Italy, even very few major churches have detached bell towers. The maj…
Surviving Medieval Free-standing Bell Towers at Parish Churches in England and Wales
Between the Conquest and the Dissolution, at least seven cathedrals and eight abbeys constucted free-standing bell towers. This phenomenon, however, was not limited to major establishments for, during the same period, free-standing towers were raised at a number of parish churches—at least thirty survive. This is a phenomenon without parallel on the Continent where, except for Italy, even very few major churches have detached bell towers. The maj…
Property and Piety in Early Medieval Winchester
A History of Ely Cathedral . Peter Meadows , Nigel Ramsay
‘The Sharer of My Joys and Sorrows’
During the eighteenth century, Britain became the leading slave- trading country in the world, and her American and Caribbean colonies relied on slave labour for their economic prosperity. However, towards the end of the century, opposition to the slave trade grew, based on a combination of religious conviction, humanitarian concern, economic self-interest and strategic political manoeuvring. In 1807, Britain introduced an empire-wide ban on the …
Slave Ships and their Captive Cargoes, 1730–1807 - by Emma Christopher
The Production and Publication of Captain Henry Butler's South African Sketches (1841)
This essay examines the circumstances surrounding the compilation and publication of Captain Henry Butler's South African Sketches (1841). Focusing on documentary evidence relating to the production, distribution and reception of this illustrated book of hunting scenes, the essay argues for the importance of considering the context and mechanics of publication in assessing the book, its physical appearance and content and, ultimately, its place i…
The slavery question in Eastern Africa’
(2008). 'The slavery question in Eastern Africa': Representations of Indian Ocean slavery and its suppression in nineteenth‐century Britain from the collection of the national maritime Museum. Journal for Maritime Research: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 23-49
Life and Death in the Age of Sail
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