Edward Spiers

Engines for empire

The Victorian army and its use of railways

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Produktbeschreibung

This wide-ranging and extensively researched work reviews the way in which the British army exploited the potential of railways from the à â Ë dawn of the railway ageà â â to the outbreak of the First World War. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Imperialism
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780719086151
• ISBN-10: 0719086159
• Artikelnr.: 42504957

Autorenporträt

Edward M. Spiers is Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of Leeds

Inhaltsangabe

1. Public order: the army and railways 2. Railways and home defence 3.
Railway experiments in mid-Victorian wars 4. Operational railways 5.
Strategic railways in India 6. Sudan military railway 7. Railways on the
Veld: the South African War, 1899-1902 8. Conclusion: railways and the
preparation for war, 1914 Appendix 1: Working methods on the Sudan Railway,
1884-5 2. Indian volunteer railway units Bibliography Index