TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morriss,Roger
TI  - The foundations of British maritime ascendancy: resources, logistics and the State, 1755-1815 
T2  - Cambridge military histories
SN  - 9780521768092 (hardback)
AV  - DA87 .M67 2011
U1  - 359.00941/09033 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, [England], New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Sea-power
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History, Naval
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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 and projection of armed forces of unprecedented size 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. Traditionally regarded as inferior to the fighting services, this book argues that Britain's military bureaucracy was in fact the keystone of the nation's maritime ascendancy"--
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