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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Lenman, B., Apr 2006, In: Scottish Historical Review. 85, p. 158-159 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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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
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Lenman, B. P., 2005, In: Albion. 36, p. 771-772 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Lenman, B. P., Jun 2005, In: The International History Review. 27, p. 365-367 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review