Harry W. Dickinson

Educating the Royal Navy (eBook, ePUB)

18th and 19th Century Education for Officers

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume provides the first comprehensive history of education and training for officers of the Royal Navy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It covers the development of educational provision, from the first 1702 Order in Council appointing schoolmasters to serve in operational warships, to the laying of the foundation stone of the pre

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 532
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134223824
• Artikelnr.: 38263443

Autorenporträt

Harry W. Dickinson

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. All at Sea: The Naval Schoolmaster 1702-1837 2. 'A Sink of
Abomination...' The Portsmouth Naval Academy and the Royal Naval College,
Portsmouth 1733-1837 3. Pitchforks and Professors: Educating the Young
Officer 1837-1862 4. Inklings of a System: Continuing and Higher Education
to 1869 5. Britannia at Dartmouth, 1863-1874 6. 'While Their Minds are
Docile and Plastic...' The Shadwell Report 1870 7. 'As Much by Wisdom as by
War...' The Royal Naval College Greenwich 1870-1902 8. The Fortunes of HMS
Britannia 1874-1902 9. 'Engineers are not Gentlemen...' Education and
Training for Naval Engineers Conclusion