Steam power and sea power : coal, the Royal Navy, and the British Empire, c. 1870-1914 / Steven Gray.
Gray, Steven, author.
2018
DA88 .G73 2018eb
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Title Steam power and sea power : coal, the Royal Navy, and the British Empire, c. 1870-1914 / Steven Gray.
Author Gray, Steven, author.
ISBN 9781137576422 (electronic book)
1137576421 (electronic book)
1137576413
9781137576415
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57642-2
Imprint London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1057/978-1-137-57642-2 doi
Call Number DA88 .G73 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 359.0094109/034
Summary 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.
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Series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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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.

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