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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Steven GrayPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2018 Weight: 5.005kg ISBN: 9781137576415ISBN 10: 1137576413 Pages: 289 Publication Date: 06 October 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsChapter 1 — Introduction.- Part I: The Rise of Coal Consciousness: Coal, State, and Imperial Defence.- Chapter 2 — Investigating the Coal Question.- Chapter 3 — From Coal Consciousness to Coal Consensus.- Part II: ‘An Enormous System Under Splendid Control’: The Development of a Coaling Infrastructure.- Chapter 4 — Sourcing Coal for the Navy.- Chapter 5 — Managing the Navy’s Imperial Supply.- Part III — Coaling Labour.- Chapter 6 — ‘Gifted with Strength That Is Not Human’: Using Indigenous Labour for Coaling.- Chapter 7 — ‘A Shadow Would Come Over the Ship’: Using Naval Labour for Coaling.- Part IV — Sojourning at the Coaling Station.- Chapter 8 — A maritime community?.- Chapter 9 — Exploring the Station.- Chapter 10 — Epilogue.Reviews“In Steam Power and Sea Power, Steven Gray explores the political, economic, social, and cultural implications of the British Navy’s transition to, and reliance on, mineral energy. Drawing from a diverse array of government and naval correspondence and reports, parliamentary papers, diaries and journals, ships logs, and a number of newspapers and periodicals from across the British empire, Gray brings together the well- established literature on the relationship between the Royal Navy and the British empire with the quickly-growing field of energy history.” (Andrew Watson, Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 53 (3), 2018) In Steam Power and Sea Power, Steven Gray explores the political, economic, social, and cultural implications of the British Navy's transition to, and reliance on, mineral energy. Drawing from a diverse array of government and naval correspondence and reports, parliamentary papers, diaries and journals, ships logs, and a number of newspapers and periodicals from across the British empire, Gray brings together the well- established literature on the relationship between the Royal Navy and the British empire with the quickly-growing field of energy history. (Andrew Watson, Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 53 (3), 2018) Author InformationSteven 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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