Prof Bruce Lenman

Emeritus Professor

Researcher profile

Email

bl@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

1. The overseas Expansion of Europe from c. 1400 to c. 1830, with particular reference to a)European chartered trading companies and Asia, and b)Brtish Colonial wars in Asia and America.

2. Scotland in the Age of the Enlightenment with particular reference to Scottish settlement in and contacts with the Chesapeake and Caribbean.

3. Main current research program is on the connections between amphibious operations and pilotage, navigation and the evolution of maritime cartography,with particular reference to underwater and coastal hazards,especially coral reef systems, in the Caribbean to c.1800. The scope includes the Lesser Antilles, but there is some emphasis on the Spanish-speaking Greater Antilles, especially Cuba.

Selected publications

• 1715: The great Jacobite rebellion

  Lenman, B. P., Jun 2008, In: Journal of Early Modern History. 80, p. 413-415 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• Rebellion and savagery: The Jacobite rising of 1745 and the British Empire

  Lenman, B. P., Apr 2008, In: Scottish Historical Review. 87, p. 163-165 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• Edmund Burke, volume II: 1784-1797

  Lenman, B. P., Dec 2007, In: Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 35, p. 623-626 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The business of Empire: The East India Company and imperial Britain, 1756-1833

  Lenman, B. P., Jun 2007, In: Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 35, p. 314-317 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The scandal of Empire: India and the creation of imperial Britain

  Lenman, B. P., Jun 2007, In: Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 35, p. 314-317 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Patrick Ferguson: 'A man of some genius'.

  Lenman, B., Apr 2006, In: Scottish Historical Review. 85, p. 158-159 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic world, 1750-1820

  Lenman, B. P., Sept 2006, In: Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 34, p. 439-441 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The making and unmaking of empires: Britain, India, and America c.1750-1783

  Lenman, B. P., Jun 2006, In: Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 34, p. 272-274 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Ancient animosity: The Appin murder and the end of Scottish rebellion.

  Lenman, B. P., 2005, In: Albion. 36, p. 771-772 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Scotland's empire, 1600-1815.

  Lenman, B. P., Jun 2005, In: The International History Review. 27, p. 365-367 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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