Steam Power and Sea Power (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
289
Utgivningsdatum
2017-10-06
Upplaga
1st ed. 2018
Förlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Illustratör/Fotograf
3 farbige Tabellen 22 schwarz-weiße und 5 farbige Abbildungen Bibliographie
Illustrationer
5 Illustrations, color; 22 Illustrations, black and white; XVI, 289 p. 27 illus., 5 illus. in color.
Dimensioner
210 x 148 x 25 mm
Vikt
649 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
1 Hardback
ISBN
9781137576415

Steam Power and Sea Power

Coal, the Royal Navy, and the British Empire, c. 1870-1914

av Steven Gray
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This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across the British Empire. In particular, it considers how steam propulsion made vessels utterly dependent on a particular resource coal and its distribution around the world. In doing so, it shows that the coal question was central to imperial defence and the protection of trade, requiring the creation of infrastructures that spanned the globe. This infrastructure required careful management, and the processes involved show the development of bureaucracy and the reliance on the contractor state to ensure this was both robust and able to allow swift mobilisation in war. The requirement to stop regularly at foreign stations also brought men of the Royal navy into contact with local coal heavers, as well as indigenous populations and landscapes. These encounters and their dissemination are crucial to our understanding of imperial relationshipsand imaginations at the height of the imperial age.
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In Steam Power and Sea Power, Steven Gray explores the political, economic, social, and cultural implications of the British Navys transition to, and reliance on, mineral energy. Drawing from a diverse array of government and naval correspondence and reports, parliamentary papers, diaries and journals, ships logs, and a number of newspapers and periodicals from across the British empire, Gray brings together the well- established literature on the relationship between the Royal Navy and the British empire with the quickly-growing field of energy history. (Andrew Watson, Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 53 (3), 2018)

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Steven Gray is Lecturer in the History of the Royal Navy at the University of Portsmouth, UK, where he teaches on the MA in Naval History. His PhD, completed at the University of Warwick, won the British Commission for Maritime History Doctoral prize for the best doctoral thesis, 2014.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Part I: The Rise of Coal Consciousness: Coal, State, and Imperial Defence.- Chapter 2 Investigating the Coal Question.- Chapter 3 From Coal Consciousness to Coal Consensus.- Part II: An Enormous System Under Splendid Control: The Development of a Coaling Infrastructure.- Chapter 4 Sourcing Coal for the Navy.- Chapter 5 Managing the Navys Imperial Supply.- Part III Coaling Labour.- Chapter 6 Gifted with Strength That Is Not Human: Using Indigenous Labour for Coaling.- Chapter 7 A Shadow Would Come Over the Ship: Using Naval Labour for Coaling.- Part IV Sojourning at the Coaling Station.- Chapter 8 A maritime community?.- Chapter 9 Exploring the Station.- Chapter 10 Epilogue.

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