Don Leggett

Re-inventing the Ship

Science, Technology and the Maritime World, 1800-1918
Herausgeber: Dunn, Richard

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The technological development of the ship between 1800 and 1914 was dramatic, encompassing the shift from wood and sail to iron, steel and steam. This volume offers a multi-disciplinary approach to the history of the ship in the long nineteenth century. It illustrates the ways in which the material elements of the ship, together with the scientific, artisan and seafaring ideas and practices that endowed the ship with its character, may be approached from different historical, geographical, cultural and literary perspectives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781409418498
• ISBN-10: 1409418499
• Artikelnr.: 44559035

Autorenporträt

Dr, Don Leggett, University of Kent, UK; and Richard Dunn, National Maritime Museum, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: re-inventing the ship in the long 19th century
Don Leggett and Richard Dunn; Symbolic ships
sail and steam
Christopher Harvie; 'This great national undertaking': John Scott Russell
the master shipwrights and the Royal Mail steam packet company
Crosbie Smith; 'The Robinson line of boats': networks of trust in a 19th-century shipping company
Oliver Carpenter; Neptune's new clothes: actors
iron and the identity of the mid-Victorian warship
Don Leggett; The health of workers in the Royal Dockyard
Portsmouth
Richard Biddle; Where is Bathybius Haeckelii? The ship as a scientific instrument and a space of science
Anne Flore LaloÃ'; 'Their brains over-taxed': ships
instruments and users
Richard Dunn; Naval culture and the fleet submarine
1910-1917
Duncan Redford; 19th-century American warships: the pursuit of exceptionalist design
William M. McBride; Epilogue: 'A force to be reckoned with'
Andrew Lambert; Index.