RE-INVENTING THE SHIP
Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies Series
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Professor Greg Kennedy, Dr Tim Benbow and Dr Jon Robb-Webb,
Defence Studies Department, Joint Services Command and Staff College, UK
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Re-inventing the Ship
Science, Technology and the Maritime World, 18001918
Edited by
DON LEGGETT
University of Kent, UK
and
RICHARD DUNN
National Maritime Museum, UK
First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Re-inventing the ship : science, technology and the maritime world, 18001918. (Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies series)
1. Naval architecturegreat Britainhistory19th century. 2. ShipbuildingMaterials great Britainhistory19th century.
I. Series II. Leggett, Don. III. Dunn, Richard.
623.81094109034-dc23
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Leggett, Don.
Re-inventing the ship : science, technology and the maritime world, 18001918 / Don Leggett and Richard Dunn.
p. cm. (Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-1849-8 (hbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-3156-0465-7 (ebook) 1. ShipsHistory19th century. 2. ShipsHistory20th century. 3. ShipbuildingHistory19th century. 4. ShipbuildingHistory20th century. 5. ShippingHistory19th century. I. Dunn, Richard, 1966 II. Title.
VM19.L44 2012
623.81209034dc23
2011044379
ISBN 9781409418498 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315604657 (ebk)
ISBN 9781317068372 (ebk-ePUB)
Contents
Don Leggett and Richard Dunn
Christopher Harvie
Crosbie Smith
Oliver Carpenter
Don Leggett
Richard Biddle
Anne-Flore Lalo
Richard Dunn
Duncan Redford
William M. McBride
Andrew Lambert
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
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Tables
Notes on Contributors
Richard Biddle was awarded his PhD by Oxford Brookes University in 2010 for a thesis that examined the development of healthcare provision in nineteenth-century Portsmouth. He now works as an associate lecturer for the Open University and maintains close links with Oxford Brookes Centre for Health Medicine and Society. His current research is concerned with occupational health in the nineteenth-century shipbuilding industry.
Oliver Carpenter is a doctoral student in the School of History at the University of Kent. He is completing a thesis concerning social and cultural networks in merchant shipping in North East England c.18601920. His other interests include the cultural history of science and technology in the long nineteenth century.
Richard Dunn studied history of science at the University of Cambridge. Since 2004, he has been Curator of the History of Navigation at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. He is currently working on the history of the British Board of Longitude as part of a collaborative project with the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Recent publications include The Telescope: A Short History (London, 2009).
Christopher Harvie taught at the Open University and was Professor of British Studies at Tbingen University until 2007. His publications include Fools Gold: the Story of North Sea Oil (1994), Floating Commonwealth: Politics, Technology and Culture on Britains Atlantic Coast, 18601930 (2008) and Scotland in Brief (2010). In 2007, he was returned as the Scottish National Party Member for Mid Scotland and Fife, and serves as a member of the Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee, and as Parliamentary Liaison Officer to the First Minister. He is also Honorary Professor of Politics at Aberystwyth and of History at Strathclyde.
Anne-Flore Lalo holds degrees in art history, English literature, critical theory and historical geography. Her chief interest is in developing an interdisciplinary understanding of how knowledge about the Earth, specifically oceans, is produced and represented from scientific, cultural and social perspectives. She has presented research to the International Conference of Historical Geographers, the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers and the British Society for the History of Science. She is currently examining the creation and paradigms of geographical knowledge, in particular the relationship between local science and global theories with regards to oceanography.