Description
About the Author
Don Leggett is Assistant Professor in the History of Science and Technology at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Reviews
'Shaping the Royal Navy is an impressive piece of scholarship. It is an engagingly written, deftly
organised and nicely illustrated volume, its arguments lingering the mind long after the last page
has 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.'
Ben Marsden, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK, International Journal of Maritime History, February 2017
Book Information
ISBN 9780719090288
Author Don Leggett
Format Hardback
Page Count 312
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publisher Manchester University Press
Weight(grams) 513g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 19mm