The James Ford Bell Lecture has been delivered annually since 1964 in the

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at the

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on a topic relating to the collections of the Library: the history of global trade before ca. 1800 CE.

List of the published James Ford Bell Lectures

* 5. ''Saints and sinners at sea'' by Vincent H. Cassidy. inneapolis The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1968. * 6. ''On book collecting: the story of my Drake library'' by

Hans P. Kraus Hans Peter Kraus (October 12, 1907 – November 1, 1988), also known as H. P. Kraus or HPK, was an Austrian-born book dealer described as "without doubt the most successful and dominant rare book dealer in the world in the second half of the 20th c ...

. inneapolis The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1969. * 7. ''

Pehr Kalm Pehr Kalm (6 March 1716 – 16 November 1779), also known as Peter Kalm, was a Swedish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist. He was one of the most important apostles of Carl Linnaeus. In 1747, he was commissioned by the R ...

and the image of North America'' by Nils William Olsson. inneapolis The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1970. * 8 ''All the peoples of the world are men'' by

Lewis Hanke Lewis Hanke (1905–1993) was an American historian of colonial Latin America, and is best known for his writings on the Spanish conquest of Latin America. Hanke, along with two others, Irving A. Leonard and John T. Lanning, presented a revisioni ...

. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1970. * 9 ''The exploration of Canada: some geographical considerations'' by

Eric W. Morse Eric W. Morse was a writer, wilderness canoe traveler and historian. He was born December 29, 1904, in India and died in Ottawa March 1986.''Eric W. Morse Fonds'' (collections) R8288 Canadian National Archives R8288 Prepared in 2002 by R. Fish ...

. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1971. * 10 ''The Barbary pirates: victims and the scourage of Christendom'' by Paul W. Bamford. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1972. * 12 ''The economy and society of colonial Brazil: a brief overview'' by

Stuart B. Schwartz Stuart B. Schwartz is the George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University, the Chair of the Council of Latin American and Iberian Studies, and the former Master of Ezra Stiles College. Education Schwartz was born in Springfield, Massa ...

. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1974. * 13 ''The European presence in West Africa before 1800'' by Victoria Bomba Coifman. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1975. * 14 ''The Minnesota Vincent of Beauvais manuscript and Cistercian thirteenth-century book decoration'' by Alison Stones. Minneapolis: The Association of The James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1977. * 15 ''The orderly landscape: landscape tastes and the United States survey'' by

Hildegard Binder Johnson Hildegard Binder Johnson (August 20, 1908 – January 18, 1993) was a German-American geographer known for her research into the German diaspora and for her work in historical geography on the midwestern United States. She founded the geography d ...

. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1977. * 16 ''The efficient plantation and the inefficient hacienda'' by Ward Barrett. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1979. * 17 ''The bay where Hudson did winter'' by Linden J. Lundstrom. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1980. * 18 ''Reversing the telescope:

Louis Hennepin Father Louis Hennepin, O.F.M. baptized Antoine, (; 12 May 1626 – 5 December 1704) was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Recollet order (French: ''Récollets'') and an explorer of the interior of North Ameri ...

and three hundred years of historical perspective'' by Rhoda R. Gilman. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1981. * 19 ''By inch of candle: a sale at East-India-House, 21 September 1675'' by Otto Charles Thieme. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1982. * 20 ''In search of silk:

Adam Olearius Adam Olearius (born Adam Ölschläger or Oehlschlaeger, 24 September 159922 February 1671) was a German scholar, mathematician, geographer and librarian. He became secretary to the ambassador sent by Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, to ...

’ mission to Russia and Persia'' by Gerhard H. Weiss. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1983. * 21 ''Technology transfer and cultural subversion: tensions in the early Jesuit mission to China'' by Edward L. Farmer. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1983. * 22 '' Sir Joseph Banks and the origins of science policy'' by

A. Hunter Dupree Anderson Hunter Dupree (29 January 1921 – 30 November 2019) was an American historian and one of the pioneer historians of the history of science and technology in the United States. He died in November 2019 at the age of 98. Early education T ...

. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1984. * 23 ''Pirates: myths and realities'' by Robert C. Ritchie. inneapolis The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1986. * 24 ''Life at sea in the sixteenth century: the landlubber’s lament of

Eugenio de Salazar Eugenio de Salazar (born circa 1530) was a Spanish jurist and writer who crossed the Atlantic in the 16th century. De Salazar made the journey with his wife and family in 1573, 81 years after Christopher Columbus. Life and works Salazar was the s ...

'' ranslatedby Carla Rahn Phillips. inneapolis The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1987. * 25 ''Goods, ideas, and values: the East Indies trade as an agent of change in eighteenth-century Sweden'' by Michael F. Metcalf. inneapolis The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1988. * 26 ''Representations of slavery:

John Gabriel Stedman John Gabriel Stedman (1744 – 7 March 1797) was a Dutch-born Scottish soldier who wrote ''The Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam'' (1796). This narrative covers his years in Suriname as a soldier in the ...

’s "Minnesota" manuscripts'' by Richard Price. inneapolis The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1989. * 27 ''Towards superiority: European and Indian medicine, 1500-1700'' by M. N. Pearson. inneapolis The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1989. * 28 ''Disease and imperialism before the nineteenth century'' by

Philip D. Curtin Philip Dearmond Curtin (May 22, 1922 – June 4, 2009) was a Professor Emeritus of Johns Hopkins University and historian on Africa and the Atlantic slave trade. His most famous work, ''The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census'' (1969) was one of the ...

. inneapolis The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1990. * 29 ''

Richard Eden Richard Eden may refer to: * Richard Eden (translator) Richard Eden (c. 1520–1576) was an English alchemist and translator. His translations of the geographical works of other writers helped to foster enthusiasm for overseas exploration in Tud ...

, advocate of empire'' by John "Jack" Parker. inneapolis The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1991. * 30 ''The making of an elite enterprise: the

Jesuits The Society of Jesus ( la, Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuits (; la, Iesuitæ), is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rom ...

in the Portuguese Assistancy, 16th to 18th centuries'' by Dauril Alden. inneapolis Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1992. * 31 ''My long journey with

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'' by Merle Severy. inneapolis Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1993. * 32 ''Moravian missionaries at work in a Jamaican slave community, 1754-1835'' by Richard S. Dunn. inneapolis The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1994. * 33 ''The medieval origins of European expansion'' by William D. Phillips, Jr. inneapolis Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1996. * 34 ''"The four parts of the world": Giovanni Francesco Camocio’s wall maps'' by David Woodward. inneapolis Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1997. * 35 '' Thomas Forrest: Renaissance seaman'' by

Joseph E. Schwartzberg Joseph E. Schwartzberg (February 5, 1928 – September 19, 2018) was an American writer, peace activist, and a world federalist, who was a tenured professor at the University of Minnesota. Author of numerous books, he was the editor and principal ...

. inneapolis Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1998. * 36 ''An epic American exploration: the friendship of

Lewis and Clark Lewis may refer to: Names * Lewis (given name), including a list of people with the given name * Lewis (surname), including a list of people with the surname Music * Lewis (musician), Canadian singer * "Lewis (Mistreated)", a song by Radiohead ...

'' by

Stephen E. Ambrose Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American historian, most noted for his biographies of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Or ...

. inneapolis Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1998. * 37 ''Learning from legends on the James Ford Bell Library mappamundi'' by Scott D. Westrem. inneapolis Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 2000. * 38 ''

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’s crusades against

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and

Algiers Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques ...

: appearance and reality'' by

James D. Tracy James Donald Tracy is an American historian. With Heiko A. Oberman, he was co-founder of the ''Journal of Early Modern History'', and editor from 1999 through 2010. He has served as president of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, thS ...

. inneapolis, MN Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 2001. * 39 ''Continuity and discontinuity in the sixteenth-century New World'' by Felipe Fernández-Armesto. inneapolis Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 2001. * 40 ''Acquisition of rare books, manuscripts and maps: a curator’s commentary'' by Carol Urness. inneapolis Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 2005.

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* University of Minnesota Library Catalogue {{DEFAULTSORT:Bell Lecture, James Ford Bell University of Minnesota Early modern period 1964 establishments in Minnesota History of books Recurring events established in 1964