ISBN10: 1861761678, ISBN13: 9781861761675, [publisher: Chatham Publishing] Hardcover First Edition dust jacket shows very light shelf wear edges, clean condition, price unclipped, 224pp, pages bright and clean and fine condition
[Haydock, MER, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001]
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Chatham Publishing. Good in Fair dust jacket. Date: 2001. Hardcover. Hardback; a few small ink marks to bibliography, otherwise very good in creased, chipped, and price-clipped dustjacket. ; The successes and failures as navies in the late 19th century moved from the world of wooden sailing ships to the new technology of steam and iron. Illustrated. ; 224 pages . 2001. Chatham Publishing ISBN 1861761678 9781861761675 [GB]

ISBN10: 1861761678, ISBN13: 9781861761675, [publisher: Chatham Publishing] Hardcover Hardback; a few small ink marks to bibliography, otherwise very good in creased, chipped, and price-clipped dustjacket. ; The successes and failures as navies in the late 19th century moved from the world of wooden sailing ships to the new technology of steam and iron. Illustrated. ; 224 pages
[Stratford upon Avon, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001]
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ISBN10: 1861761678, ISBN13: 9781861761675, [publisher: Chatham Publishing, London] Hardcover First Edition This mint unmarked copy is bound in cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine, tight, white, bright and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in fine condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. Many books have covered the technological revolution that saw wooden hulls replaced by iron and steel, sail superseded by steam, and smooth-bore muzzle-loading gun giving way to rifled breech-loaders and entirely new weapons like torpedoes. But previous works have tended to concentrate on the technology itself, largely to the exclusion of external but crucial factors, like politics, finance, administrative problems, foreign threats and strategic situations. The years 1870-1885 have also been neglected because they were seen as the 'dark ages of the Admiralty', but this book argues strongly that, although the problems faced were greater than in previous decades, it is actually a pivotal period in the emergence of the modern warship. In so doing, it counters the general perception that that those responsible for British design policy at the time were retrogressive, incompetent, or both. What emerges is a more complete picture of the problems - often insoluble - fa ...

ISBN10: 1861761678, ISBN13: 9781861761675, [publisher: Chatham Publishing] Hardcover 224 Seiten; 9781861761675.2 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 2
[Stuttgart, Germany] [Publication Year: 2001]