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The Foundations of British Maritime Ascendancy - Resources, Logistics and the State, 1755-1815 (Paperback)
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The Foundations of British Maritime Ascendancy - Resources, Logistics and the State, 1755-1815 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Military Histories
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British power and global expansion between 1755 and 1815 have
mainly been attributed to the fiscal-military state and the
achievements of the Royal navy at sea. Roger Morriss here sheds new
light on the broader range of developments in the infrastructure of
the state needed to extend British power at sea and overseas. He
demonstrates how developments in culture, experience and control in
central government affected the supply of ships, manpower, food,
transport and ordnance as well as the support of the army,
permitting the maintenance of armed forces of unprecedented size
and their projection to distant stations. He reveals how the
British state, although dependent on the private sector, built a
partnership with it based on trust, ethics and the law. This book
argues that Britain's military bureaucracy, traditionally regarded
as inferior to the fighting services, was in fact the keystone of
the nation's maritime ascendancy.
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