Steam Power and Sea Power
Gray, Steven
Produktnummer:
183acc316771474f0693eba6d5ccc3006c
Autor: | Gray, Steven |
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Themengebiete: | British Empire British Navy Coal Consciousness Coal Consensus Coaling Station Imperial Defence Naval Labour Royal Navy |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 06.10.2017 |
EAN: | 9781137576415 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 289 |
Produktart: | Gebunden |
Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
Untertitel: | Coal, the Royal Navy, and the British Empire, c. 1870-1914 |
Produktinformationen "Steam Power and Sea Power"
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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