- James Ford Bell Lecture
The James Ford Bell Lecture has been delivered annually since 1964 in the
James Ford Bell Library at theUniversity of Minnesota on a topic relating to the collections of the Library: the history of global trade and the Early Modern period.List of the published James Ford Bell Lectures
* 5. "Saints and sinners at sea" by
Vincent H. Cassidy . [Minneapolis] : The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1968.* 6. "On book collecting: the story of my Drake library" by
H. P. Kraus . [Minneapolis] : The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1969.* 7. "
Pehr Kalm and the image of North America" byNils William Olsson . [Minneapolis] : The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1970.* 8 "All the peoples of the world are men" by
Lewis Hanke . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 and three hundred years of historical perspective" byRhoda 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 ’ mission to Russia and Persia" byGerhard 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" byA. Hunter Dupree . Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1984.* 23 "Pirates: myths and realities" by
Robert C. Ritchie . [Minneapolis] : 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 " [translated] byCarla Rahn Phillips . [Minneapolis] : 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 . [Minneapolis] : The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1988.* 26 "Representations of slavery:
John Gabriel Stedman ’s "Minnesota" manuscripts" by Richard Price. [Minneapolis] : 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 . [Minneapolis] : The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1989.* 28 "Disease and imperialism before the nineteenth century" by
Philip D. Curtin . [Minneapolis] : The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1990.* 29 "
Richard Eden , advocate of empire" byJohn "Jack" Parker . [Minneapolis] : The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1991.* 30 "The making of an elite enterprise: the
Jesuits in the Portuguese Assistancy, 16th to 18th centuries" byDauril Alden . [Minneapolis] : Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1992.* 31 "My long journey with
National Geographic " byMerle Severy . [Minneapolis] : 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 . [Minneapolis] : The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1994.* 33 "The medieval origins of European expansion" by
William D. Phillips, Jr. [Minneapolis] : Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1996.* 34 "The four parts of the world":
Giovanni Francesco Camocio ’s wall maps" byDavid Woodward . [Minneapolis] : Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1997.* 35 "
Thomas Forrest : Renaissance seaman" byJoseph E. Schwartzberg . [Minneapolis] : Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1998.* 36 "An epic American exploration: the friendship of
Lewis and Clark " byStephen E. Ambrose . [Minneapolis] : Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1998.* 37 "Learning from legends on the James Ford Bell Library
mappamundi " byScott D. Westrem . [Minneapolis] : Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 2000.* 38 "
Emperor Charles V ’s crusades againstTunis andAlgiers : appearance and reality" byJames D. Tracy . [Minneapolis, MN] : Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 2001.* 39 "Continuity and discontinuity in the sixteenth-century New World" by
Felipe Fernández-Armesto . [Minneapolis] : Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 2001.* 40 "Acquisition of rare books, manuscripts and maps: a curator’s commentary" by
Carol Urness . [Minneapolis] : Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 2005.ource
* University of Minnesota Library Catalogue
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