Steam Power and Sea Power: Coal, the Royal Navy, and the British Empire, c. 1870-1914

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Steven Gray

Steam Power and Sea Power

Coal, the Royal Navy, and the British Empire, c. 1870-1914

Steven Gray

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English

Palgrave Macmillan
06 October 2017

British & Irish history; Colonialism & imperialism; Political science & theory; Naval forces & warfare; Coal & solid fuel industries

Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies

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 relationshipsand imaginations at the height of the imperial age.

By: Steven Gray
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1st ed. 2018
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 5.005kg
ISBN: 9781137576415
ISBN 10: 1137576413
Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
Pages: 289
Publication Date: 06 October 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Steven Gray is Lecturer in the History of the Royal Navy at the University of Portsmouth, UK, where he teaches on the MA in Naval History. His PhD, completed at the University of Warwick, won the British Commission for Maritime History Doctoral prize for the best doctoral thesis, 2014.

Reviews for Steam Power and Sea Power: Coal, the Royal Navy, and the British Empire, c. 1870-1914

“In Steam Power and Sea Power, Steven Gray explores the political, economic, social, and cultural implications of the British Navy’s transition to, and reliance on, mineral energy. Drawing from a diverse array of government and naval correspondence and reports, parliamentary papers, diaries and journals, ships logs, and a number of newspapers and periodicals from across the British empire, Gray brings together the well- established literature on the relationship between the Royal Navy and the British empire with the quickly-growing field of energy history.” (Andrew Watson, Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 53 (3), 2018)