Steam Power and Sea Power

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

By:

Steven Gray

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

October 6th, 2017

Author

Steven Gray

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Edition

1st ed. 2018

Illustrations

5 Illustrations, color; 22 Illustrations, black and white; XVI, 289 p. 27 illus., 5 illus. in color.

Pages

289

Series

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies

ISBN-13

9781137576415

Product ID

26863247

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