Steam Power and Sea Power Coal, the Royal Navy, and the British Empire, c. 1870-1914 /

• Main Author: Gray, Steven (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
• Subjects: Great Britain-History.; Imperialism.; World politics.; Economic history.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Political History.; Economic History.

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...