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Engines for empire
eBook - The Victorian army and its use of railways, Studies in Imperialism
ISBN/EAN: 9781784991807
Umbreit-Nr.: 2285746
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 208 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 01.03.2017
Auflage: 1/2017
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- Engines for Empire examines the use of the railway by the British army from the 1830s to 1914, a period of domestic political strife and unprecedented imperial expansion. The book uses a wide array of sources and images to demonstrate how the Victorian army embraced this new technology, how it monitored foreign wars, and how it came to use the railway in both support and operational roles. The British army's innovation is also revealed, through its design and use of armoured trains, the restructuring of hospital trains, and in its capacity to build and repair railway track, bridges, and signals under field conditions.This volume provides insights on the role of railways in imperial development, as a focus of social interaction between adversaries, and as a means of projecting imperial power. It will make fascinating reading for students, academics and enthusiasts in military and imperial history, Victorian studies, railway history and colonial warfare.
- Kurztext
- This wide-ranging and extensively researched work reviews the way in which the British army exploited the potential of railways from the dawn of the railway age to the outbreak of the First World War.
- Autorenportrait
- Edward M. Spiers is Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of Leeds