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Louis XV's Navy, 1748-1762: A Study of Organization and Administration
James Pritchard
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paperback. Analyses the changes that occurred in naval organization and administration in the years between the end of the War of Austrian Succession and the conclusion of the Seven Years War. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLL; JWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
Pritchard's chief concern is to explain why Bourbon France, the richest and most poewerful state in Europe in the middle of the eighteenth century, failed to exercise its power at sea. Through a close examination of naval organization -- the secretaries of state for the navy, central bureaus, officers of the sword and pen, seamen, arsenals, workers, probems of shipbuilding, ordnance production and material acquisition, and finances -- he shows the navy as both an institution embedded in society and an instrument of government. The tensions arising from the contradiction between an institution composed of individuals who sought to advance ... Read more
Pritchard's chief concern is to explain why Bourbon France, the richest and most poewerful state in Europe in the middle of the eighteenth century, failed to exercise its power at sea. Through a close examination of naval organization -- the secretaries of state for the navy, central bureaus, officers of the sword and pen, seamen, arsenals, workers, probems of shipbuilding, ordnance production and material acquisition, and finances -- he shows the navy as both an institution embedded in society and an instrument of government. The tensions arising from the contradiction between an institution composed of individuals who sought to advance ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773536319
SKU
V9780773536319
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About James Pritchard
James Pritchard, professor emeritus, Department of History at Queen's University, is the author of Anatomy of a Naval Disaster: The 1746 French Expedition to North America and In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670-1730.
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