Download Steam Power and Sea Power: Coal, the Royal Navy, and the British Empire, c. 1870-1914 (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series) - Steven Gray file in ePub Online

Download Steam Power and Sea Power: Coal, the Royal Navy, and the British Empire, c. 1870-1914 (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series) - Steven Gray file in ePub

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

Title : Steam Power and Sea Power: Coal, the Royal Navy, and the British Empire, c. 1870-1914 (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series)
Author : Steven Gray
Language : en
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