Roy Bridges
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British historian
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- PhD History University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Roy C Bridges was a noted historian the main focus of whose academic work was the British institutions and personnel which were established in East Africa in the middle years of the nineteenth century. He was Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen where he taught from 1964 to 1997. From 2002 to 2008 he was the President of the Hakluyt Society. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Historical Society.
Roy Bridges 's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Turning Point in Africa: British Colonial Policy, 1938-48 (1982) (75)
- Atlas of Uganda (1963) (63)
- Exploration and travel outside Europe (1720-1914) (2002) (55)
- Converting colonialism : visions and realities in mission history, 1706-1914 (2008) (29)
- Book Review: Missionary Ideologies in the Imperialist Era: 1880–1920 (1984) (24)
- An African Miscellany for John Hargreaves (1985) (21)
- Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth (1999) (19)
- England, Europe and the Upper Nile, 1882-1899 (1966) (16)
- The Historical Role of British Explorers in East Africa (1982) (13)
- EUROPEANS AND EAST AFRICANS IN THE AGE OF EXPLORATION (1973) (11)
- The Journals of Carl Mauch 1869-1872 (1969) (10)
- EXPLORERS' TEXTS AND THE PROBLEM OF REACTIONS BY NON-LITERATE PEOPLES: SOME NINETEENTH-CENTURY EAST AFRICAN EXAMPLES (1998) (10)
- Nineteenth-Century East African Travel Records, With an Appendix on 'Armchair Geographers' and Cartography (1987) (9)
- W. D. Cooley, the RGS and African Geography in the Nineteenth Century: Part I: Cooley's Contribution to the Geography of Eastern Africa (1976) (8)
- Elephants, Ivory and the history of the ivory trade in East Africa (1988) (7)
- Excavations at Palaikastro, 1988 (1989) (7)
- The foundation and early years of the Aberdeen centre of the royal Scottish geographical society (1985) (6)
- The French Revolution and Napoleon (1969) (6)
- To the Victoria Falls via Matabeleland: The Diary of Major Henry Stabb, 1875@@@Bulawayo: Historic Battleground of Rhodesia@@@The Rulers of Rhodesia from Earliest Times to the Referendum (1969) (5)
- From silver to steel : the romance of the Broken Hill Proprietary (5)
- The Lutheran church on the coast of Tanzania 1887-1914 : with special reference to the Evangelical Lutheran church in Tanzania, Synod of Uzaramo-Uluguru (1973) (4)
- Geography and Science in Britain, 1831–1939: A Study of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (review) (2012) (4)
- The myth of the explorer: The press, sensationalism, and geographical discovery (1995) (3)
- The Royal Geographical Society and the African Exploration Fund (1963) (3)
- W. D. Cooley, the RGS and African Geography in the Nineteenth Century: Part II: Cooley's Attitudes and Achievements (1976) (3)
- The Sponsorship and Financing of Livingstone's Last Journey (1968) (2)
- African History at Makerere in the 1960s: A Further Perspective (2004) (2)
- The Cambridge History of Africa@@@The Cambridge History of Africa Vol. 5. From c. 1790 to c. 1870 (1976) (2)
- Over Land and Sea: Memoirs of an Austrian Rear Admiral's Life in Europe and Africa, 1857-1909 (1998) (2)
- The iron snake (1965) (2)
- Soul from the sword (1933) (2)
- John Harming Speke: Negotiating a Way to the Nile (1970) (2)
- A mirror of silver (1)
- The African adventure;: A history of Africa's explorers; (1973) (1)
- A walk across Africa : J.A. Grant's account of the Nile expedition of 1860-1863 (2018) (1)
- Imperialism, decolonization, and Africa : studies presented to John Hargreaves : with an academic memoir and bibliography (2000) (1)
- African tribes and European agencies : colonialism and humanitarianism in British South and East Africa 1870-1895 (1971) (1)
- David Livingstone: Letters and Documents 1841-1872 (1993) (1)
- That yesterday was home (1948) (1)
- Nations & empires : documents on the history of Europe and on its relations with the world since 1648 (1969) (1)
- The Porters' Burden (1977) (1)
- Gordon Waterfield (ed.): First footsteps in East Africa, by Sir Richard Burton . (Travellers and Explorers.) xiii, 320 pp., 4 plates. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966. 50s. (1966) (1)
- The league of the lord (1950) (0)
- Africa and the World [Revised Edition] (1973) (0)
- Images of Exploration in Africa: the Art of James Augustus Grant on the Nile Expedition of 1860-1863 (2006) (0)
- More on the ‘Scramble’ (1975) (0)
- The immortal dawn (0)
- Nationalism, Socialism and Reaction (1969) (0)
- A. D. Roberts (ed.): The Cambridge history of Africa. Vol. vn: From 1905 to 1940. xx, 1063 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1986. £50. (1988) (0)
- Belgian-French relations during World War II: the perspective of a Congo Governor General (1981) (0)
- R. D. Pearce, The Turning Point in Africa: British colonial policy, 1938–48, London: Frank Cass, 1982, 224 pp. (1985) (0)
- Decline and Fall of Arab Power (1987) (0)
- Book Reviews (2005) (0)
- Europe Overseas in the Nineteenth Century (1969) (0)
- H.L. Wesseling, Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa, 1880-1914 . Translated by Arnold J. Pomerans. London and Westport (Praeger) 1996. xvi + 446 pp. ISBN 0-275-95138-3. (1999) (0)
- The Russian Revolution and Stalin (1969) (0)
- J. M. Mackenzie (ed.). 1990. Imperialism and the natural world . Manchester University Press, viii + 216 pages. ISBN 0-7190-2990-7. Price: £37.50 (hardback). (1991) (0)
- Geography and Science in Britain, 1831–1939: A Study of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. By Charles W. J. Withers (New York, Manchester University Press, 2010) 278 pp. $95.00 (2012) (0)
- The Administrators and the Law in British East Africa (1973) (0)
- A Perspective of the Mid-1960s (1969) (0)
- Livingstone Under the Microscope (1989) (0)
- Conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Introductory Bibliography for the Social Sciences . Compiled by J. A. Seeley. Cambridge African Monographs No 5. Cambridge: African Studies Centre, 1985. Pp. xxi + 207. £4.00 (paperback). (1987) (0)
- Reference to index of papers of Roy Bridges (1885-1952), Tasmanian writer and newspaper reporter and his sister Hilda Bridges correspondence, papers and manuscripts (2010) (0)
- Four Travel Journals / The Americas, Antarctica and Africa / 1775-1874 (2017) (0)
- Home-birth warning. (1992) (0)
- W.D. Cooley, the Royal Geographical Society and African Geography in the Nineteenth Century. Part One (1976) (0)
- James Augustus Grant in Africa 1860-63 (1983) (0)
- The Gold Regions of South-Eastern Africa@@@Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia (1970) (0)
- William Desborough Cooley and the Foundation of the Hakluyt Society (2019) (0)
- Europe Overseas to the Revolutionary Period (1969) (0)
- Epilogue the Hakluyt Society and World History (2019) (0)
- Absolutism and its Critics (1969) (0)
- Senegambia : proceedings of a colloquium at the University of Aberdeen April 1974 (1976) (0)
- The bubble moon (0)
- The Arab State of Zanzibar. A Bibliography . By Norman Robert Bennett. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984. Pp. xvii + 231. No price stated. (1985) (0)
- International Rivalries and the First World War (1969) (0)
- The Penetration of Africa. European Enterprise and Exploration, Principally in Northern and Western Africa up to 1830. Volume I to 1815 (1966) (0)
- The vats of tyre (0)
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