Jonathan Stafford is a Research Fellow in History at the Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin

'Imperial Steam makes a substantial contribution to the history of industrialization and empire. It will be useful to maritime historians and specialists on the British Empire, but it also sheds light as a case study on some of the “big” questions on modernity and machines as experienced by travellers, laborers, and consumers.'Technology and Culture, 2023'In recent decades scholars of nineteenth-century Britain have become increasingly attentive to the energy transition in this period and to the ways that coal and steam shaped the era and what came after it... Jonathan Stafford’s Imperial Steam: Modernity on the Sea Route to India, 1837–74 offers an in-depth exploration of one key chapter in these histories'Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, University of California, Davis

• IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction 1 ‘Bustle, motion, progress, change’: Steamship modernity2 ‘A turbulent microcosm’: Steamship space3 ‘The diurnal economy of these steamers’: Steamship temporalities4 ‘Not at home, yet so completely at home’: Steamship domesticity5 ‘Dissolving views in the panorama of travel’: Producing the maritime landscapeConclusionBibliographyIndex

Jonathan Stafford is a Research Fellow in History at the Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin

'Imperial Steam makes a substantial contribution to the history of industrialization and empire. It will be useful to maritime historians and specialists on the British Empire, but it also sheds light as a case study on some of the “big” questions on modernity and machines as experienced by travellers, laborers, and consumers.'Technology and Culture, 2023'In recent decades scholars of nineteenth-century Britain have become increasingly attentive to the energy transition in this period and to the ways that coal and steam shaped the era and what came after it... Jonathan Stafford’s Imperial Steam: Modernity on the Sea Route to India, 1837–74 offers an in-depth exploration of one key chapter in these histories'Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, University of California, Davis

• IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction 1 ‘Bustle, motion, progress, change’: Steamship modernity2 ‘A turbulent microcosm’: Steamship space3 ‘The diurnal economy of these steamers’: Steamship temporalities4 ‘Not at home, yet so completely at home’: Steamship domesticity5 ‘Dissolving views in the panorama of travel’: Producing the maritime landscapeConclusionBibliographyIndex

Jonathan Stafford is a Research Fellow in History at the Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin

'Imperial Steam makes a substantial contribution to the history of industrialization and empire. It will be useful to maritime historians and specialists on the British Empire, but it also sheds light as a case study on some of the “big” questions on modernity and machines as experienced by travellers, laborers, and consumers.'Technology and Culture, 2023'In recent decades scholars of nineteenth-century Britain have become increasingly attentive to the energy transition in this period and to the ways that coal and steam shaped the era and what came after it... Jonathan Stafford’s Imperial Steam: Modernity on the Sea Route to India, 1837–74 offers an in-depth exploration of one key chapter in these histories'Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, University of California, Davis

• IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction 1 ‘Bustle, motion, progress, change’: Steamship modernity2 ‘A turbulent microcosm’: Steamship space3 ‘The diurnal economy of these steamers’: Steamship temporalities4 ‘Not at home, yet so completely at home’: Steamship domesticity5 ‘Dissolving views in the panorama of travel’: Producing the maritime landscapeConclusionBibliographyIndex