Donald M. Schurman

Imperial Defence, 1868-1887

Herausgeber: Beeler, John

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The technical transformation of the Royal Navy during the Victorian era posed many design, tactical and operational problems for administrators from the 1830s onwards. The switch from sail to steam required the creation of a system of defended coaling stations and a greater infrastructure.

Produktdetails

• Naval Policy and History
• Verlag: Cass / GB Gardners Books
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 165mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780714650067
• ISBN-10: 0714650064
• Artikelnr.: 20994112

Autorenporträt

Donald MacKenzie Schurman, John Beeler

Inhaltsangabe

Naval Review, July 2000
"This book finally makes Schurman"s key text available. ... This complex of
interests, ambitions, needs and nonsense has never been so skilfully
dissected."
The Mariner"s Mirror
"an important contribution to the field of imperial history and,
fortunately, is now available to the general reader"
Army Historical Research:
Professor Schurman"s important thesis deserves to have been seen much
earlier than this, and we should be grateful to Frank Cass for its
appearance now... an excellent production and one from which members of the
Society can draw much benefit.
Journal of Defence Studies
"an indelible mark on his chosen field through the distinctive manner in
which he studied naval issues by interweaving personalities and ideas