Don Leggett

Shaping the Royal Navy

Technology, authority and naval architecture, c.1830-1906

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a new understanding of the Victorian engineering professions, and their rise within the British government and Royal Navy

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9780719090288
• ISBN-10: 0719090288
• Artikelnr.: 42375869

Autorenporträt

Don Leggett is Assistant Professor in the History of Science and Technology at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Authority, judgement and the sailor-designer 2. Steam and
the management of naval architecture 3. Iron experiments and guaranteeing
naval power 4. The Captain catastrophe and the politics of authority 5. A
scientific problem of the highest order 6. The politics of management and
design 7. Re-engineering naval power Conclusion Bibliography Index