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The making of the modern admiralty : British naval policy-making 1805-1927
- Title
- The making of the modern admiralty : British naval policy-making 1805-1927 / C.I. Hamilton.
- Author
- Hamilton, C. I.
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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- Description
- x, 345 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This is an important new history of decision-making and policy-making in the British Admiralty from Trafalgar to the aftermath of Jutland. C. I. Hamilton explores the role of technological change, the global balance of power and, in particular, of finance and the First World War in shaping decision-making and organisational development within the Admiralty. He shows that decision-making was found not so much in the hands of the Board but at first largely in the hands of individuals, then groups or committees, and finally certain permanent bureaucracies. The latter bodies, such as the Naval Staff, were crucial to the development of policy-making as was the civil service Secretariat under the Permanent Secretary. By the 1920s the Admiralty had become not just a proper policy-making organisation, but for the first time a thoroughly civil-military one"--
- Series Statement
- Cambridge military histories
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge military histories.
- Subjects
- Great Britain > History, Naval > 20th century
- Great Britain > Admiralty > History > 19th century
- Sea-power > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Great Britain > Military policy
- Great Britain > Admiralty > History > 20th century
- Sea-power > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Great Britain > History, Naval > 19th century
- Great Britain > Royal Navy > History > 20th century
- Great Britain > Royal Navy > History > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Lord Barham's Admiralty: 1805; 2. Admiralty reform, 1806-1835; 3. Decision-making at the Admiralty, c.1806-1830; 4. Admiralty administration and decision-making, c.1830-1868. The Graham Admiralty; 5. The Admiralty reformed again: context and problems, 1869-1885; 6. Administrative and policy-making responses, c.1882 onwards; 7. Fisher and Churchill, and their successors, 1902-1917; 8. The Naval Staff, planning and policy; 9. Lord Beatty's Admiralty; Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFE 11-2271
- ISBN
- 9780521765183 (hardback)
- 0521765188 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2010038584
- OCLC
- YBP 2010038584
- Author
- Hamilton, C. I.
- Title
- The making of the modern admiralty : British naval policy-making 1805-1927 / C.I. Hamilton.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Series
- Cambridge military historiesCambridge military histories.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 11-2271