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Re-inventing the ship: science, technology and the maritime world, 1800-1918

Leggett, Don and Dunn, Richard, eds. (2012) Re-inventing the ship: science, technology and the maritime world, 1800-1918. Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies Series . Ashgate, 222 pp. ISBN 978-1-4094-1849-8. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:28562)

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Abstract

Ships have histories that are interwoven with the human fabric of the maritime world. In the long nineteenth century these histories revolved around the re-invention of these once familiar objects in a period in which Britain became a major maritime power.

This multi-disciplinary volume deploys different historical, geographical, cultural and literary perspectives to examine this transformation and to offer a series of interconnected considerations of maritime technology and culture in a period of significant and lasting change. Its ten authors reveal the processes involved through the eyes and hands of a range of actors, including naval architects, dockyard workers, commercial shipowners and Navy officers. By locating the ship's re-invention within the contexts of builders, owners and users, they illustrate the ways in which material elements, as well as scientific, artisan and seafaring ideas and practices, were bound together in the construction of ships' complex identities.

Item Type: Edited book
Subjects: D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D203 Modern History, 1453-
D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of History
Depositing User: Don Leggett
Date Deposited: 21 Dec 2011 11:05 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:06 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/28562 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Leggett, Don.

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