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  title info:
    title: Steam Power and Sea Power
    sub title: Coal, the Royal Navy, and the British Empire, c. 1870-1914
  name:
    name part: Gray, Steven.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 289 p. 27 illus., 5 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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. .
  table of contents: 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. .
  note: by Steven Gray.
  subject:
    topic: Great Britain-History
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism
  subject:
    topic: World politics
  subject:
    topic: Economic history
  subject:
    topic: History of Britain and Ireland
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism and Colonialism
  subject:
    topic: Political History
  subject:
    topic: Economic History
  classification: DA1-995
  classification: 941
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
  identifier: 9781137576422
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57642-2
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    record creation date: 170927
    record change date: 20191026232028.0
    record identifier: 978-1-137-57642-2