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Engines for Empire: The Victorian Army and its Use of Railways
Edward M. Spiers
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Engines for empire examines the use of the railway by the British army from the 1830s to 1914, a period of domestic political strife and unprecedented imperial expansion. The book uses a wide array of sources and images to demonstrate how the Victorian army embraced this new technology, how it monitored foreign wars, and how it came to use the railway in both support and operational roles. The British army's innovation is also revealed, through its design and use of armoured trains, the restructuring of hospital trains, and in its capacity to build and repair railway track, bridges, and signals ... Read more
Engines for empire examines the use of the railway by the British army from the 1830s to 1914, a period of domestic political strife and unprecedented imperial expansion. The book uses a wide array of sources and images to demonstrate how the Victorian army embraced this new technology, how it monitored foreign wars, and how it came to use the railway in both support and operational roles. The British army's innovation is also revealed, through its design and use of armoured trains, the restructuring of hospital trains, and in its capacity to build and repair railway track, bridges, and signals ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Studies in Imperialism
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719086151
SKU
V9780719086151
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About Edward M. Spiers
Edward M. Spiers is Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of Leeds -- .
Reviews for Engines for Empire: The Victorian Army and its Use of Railways
'.a recent addition to Manchester University Press's well-established, ever imaginative, and field-defining Studies in Imperialism series.' Douglas M. Peers, University of Waterloo, Victorian Studies, Vol. 59, No. 4
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