Donald Mackenzie Schurman

Imperial Defence, 1868-1887 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Beeler, John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The technical transformation of the Royal Navy during the Victorian era posed many design, tactical and operational problems for administrators from the 1830s onwards. The switch from sail to steam required the creation of a system of defended coaling stations and a greater infrastructure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135265656
• Artikelnr.: 40528921

Autorenporträt

Donald MacKenzie Schurman, John Beeler

Inhaltsangabe

Naval Review, July 2000 "This book finally makes Schurman"s key text
available. ... This complex of interests, ambitions, needs and nonsense has
never been so skilfully dissected." The Mariner"s Mirror "an important
contribution to the field of imperial history and, fortunately, is now
available to the general reader" Army Historical Research: Professor
Schurman"s important thesis deserves to have been seen much earlier than
this, and we should be grateful to Frank Cass for its appearance now... an
excellent production and one from which members of the Society can draw
much benefit. Journal of Defence Studies "an indelible mark on his chosen
field through the distinctive manner in which he studied naval issues by
interweaving personalities and ideas