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Scientific governance in Britain, 1914-79 examines the connected
histories of how science was governed, and used in governance, in
twentieth-century Britain. During the middle portion of that
century, British science grew dramatically in scale, reach and
value. These changes were due in no small part to the two world
wars and their associated effects, notably post-war reconstruction
and the on-going Cold War. As the century went on, there were more
scientists - requiring more money to fund their research -
occupying ever more niches in industry, academia, military and
civil institutions. Combining the latest research on
twentieth-century British science with insightful discussion of
what it meant to govern - and govern with - science, this volume
provides both an invaluable introduction to science in
twentieth-century Britain for students and a fresh thematic focus
on science and government for researchers interested in the
histories of science and governance. This volume features a
foreword from Sir John Beddington, UK Government Chief Scientific
Adviser 2008-13. -- .
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.
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.
The nineteenth-century Royal Navy was transformed from a fleet of
sailing wooden walls into a steam powered machine. Britain's
warships were her first line of defence, and their transformation
dominated political, engineering and scientific discussions. They
were the products of engineering ingenuity, political
controversies, naval ideologies and the fight for authority in
nineteenth-century Britain. Shaping the Royal Navy provides the
first cultural history of technology, authority and the Royal Navy
in the years of Pax Britannica. It places the story firmly within
the currents of British history to reconstruct the controversial
and high-profile nature of naval architecture. The technological
transformation of the Navy dominated the British government and
engineering communities. This book explores its history, revealing
how ship design became a modern science, the ways that actors
competed for authority within the British state and why the nature
of naval power changed. -- .
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