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Shaping the Royal Navy: Technology, Authority and Naval Architecture, C.1830-1906

Shaping the Royal Navy: Technology, Authority and Naval Architecture, C.1830-1906

Leggett, Don

Hardcover

British HistoryNaval History

ISBN10: 0719090288
ISBN13: 9780719090288
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Feb 28 2015
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The nineteenth-century Royal Navy was transformed from a fleet of sailing wooden walls into a steam powered machine. Britain's warships were her first line of defence, and their transformation dominated political, engineering and scientific discussions. They were the products of engineering ingenuity, political controversies, naval ideologies and the fight for authority in nineteenth-century Britain. Shaping the Royal Navy provides the first cultural history of technology, authority and the Royal Navy in the years of Pax Britannica. It places the story firmly within the currents of British history to reconstruct the controversial and high-profile nature of naval architecture. The technological transformation of the Navy dominated the British government and engineering communities. This book explores its history, revealing how ship design became a modern science, the ways that actors competed for authority within the British state and why the nature of naval power changed.

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