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Author: Don Leggett ,
Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.513kg
ISBN: 9780719090288
ISBN 10: 0719090288
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 28 February 2015
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
'Shaping the Royal Navy is an impressive piece of scholarship. It is an engagingly written, deftly organised and nicely illustrated volume, its arguments lingering the mind long after the last page has been turned. It is an effective and timely demolition of conventional teleological views asserting the inevitable triumph of scientific engineering against untutored craft and the replacement of patronage by meritocratic professionalism. It deserves to be read with care by all those interested in the history of the reconstruction of the Royal Navy in an age of reform, by historians of technology, and by imperial historians.' Ben Marsden, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK, International Journal of Maritime History, February 2017 -- .
‘Shaping the Royal Navy is an impressive piece of scholarship. It is an engagingly written, deftly organised and nicely illustrated volume, its arguments lingering the mind long after the last page has been turned. It is an effective and timely demolition of conventional teleological views asserting the inevitable triumph of scientific engineering against untutored craft and the replacement of patronage by meritocratic professionalism. It deserves to be read with care by all those interested in the history of the reconstruction of the Royal Navy in an age of reform, by historians of technology, and by imperial historians.’ Ben Marsden, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK, International Journal of Maritime History, February 2017 -- .
'Shaping the Royal Navy is an impressive piece of scholarship. It is an engagingly written, deftly organised and nicely illustrated volume, its arguments lingering the mind long after the last page has been turned. It is an effective and timely demolition of conventional teleological views asserting the inevitable triumph of scientific engineering against untutored craft and the replacement of patronage by meritocratic professionalism. It deserves to be read with care by all those interested in the history of the reconstruction of the Royal Navy in an age of reform, by historians of technology, and by imperial historians.' Ben Marsden, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK, International Journal of Maritime History, February 2017 -- .
Author Information
Don Leggett is Assistant Professor in the History of Science and Technology at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
