Steam Power and Sea Power (eBook)

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

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2017 | 1st ed. 2018
XVI, 289 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-57642-2 (ISBN)

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Steam Power and Sea Power - Steven Gray
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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 relationships and imaginations at the height of the imperial age. 



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. 


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. 

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. 

Chapter 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.  

Erscheint lt. Verlag 25.9.2017
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
Zusatzinfo XVI, 289 p. 27 illus., 5 illus. in color.
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Technik Bergbau
Technik Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
Wirtschaft
Schlagworte British Empire • British Navy • Coal Consciousness • Coal Consensus • Coaling Station • Imperial Defence • Naval Labour • Royal Navy
ISBN-10 1-137-57642-1 / 1137576421
ISBN-13 978-1-137-57642-2 / 9781137576422
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