{"product_id":"shaping-the-royal-navy-technology-authority-and-naval-architecture-c18301906-9780719090288","title":"Shaping the Royal Navy Technology Authority and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProvides a new understanding of the Victorian engineering professions, and their rise within the British government and Royal Navy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Shaping the Royal Navy \u003c\/i\u003eis an impressive piece of scholarship. It is an engagingly written, deftly\u003cbr\u003eorganised and nicely illustrated volume, its arguments lingering the mind long after the last page\u003cbr\u003ehas been turned. It is an effective and timely demolition of conventional teleological views asserting the inevitable triumph of scientific engineering against untutored craft and the replacement of patronage by meritocratic professionalism. It deserves to be read with care by all those interested in the history of the reconstruction of the Royal Navy in an age of reform, by historians of technology, and by imperial historians.’\u003cbr\u003eBen Marsden, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Maritime History, February 2017\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Authority, judgement and the sailor-designer\u003cbr\u003e2. Steam and the management of naval architecture\u003cbr\u003e3. Iron experiments and guaranteeing naval power\u003cbr\u003e4. The Captain catastrophe and the politics of authority\u003cbr\u003e5. A scientific problem of the highest order\u003cbr\u003e6. The politics of management and design\u003cbr\u003e7. Re-engineering naval power\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884289143127,"sku":"9780719090288","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shaping-the-royal-navy-technology-authority-and-naval-architecture-c18301906-9780719090288","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}