The James Ford Bell Lecture has been delivered annually since 1964 in the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota on a topic relating to the collections of the Library.
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 Hans P. Kraus. [Minneapolis]: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1969. 7. Pehr Kalm and the image of North America by Nils 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 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’ 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. 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] by Carla 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 by John "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 by Dauril Alden. [Minneapolis]: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1992. 31 My long journey with National Geographic by Merle 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 by David Woodward. [Minneapolis]: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1997. 35 Thomas Forrest: Renaissance seaman by Joseph 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 by Stephen E. Ambrose. [Minneapolis]: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1998. 37 Learning from legends on the James Ford Bell Library mappamundi by Scott D. Westrem. [Minneapolis]: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 2000. 38 Emperor Charles V’s crusades against Tunis and Algiers: appearance and reality by James 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.
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