Suchergebnisse

1. Introduction -- 2. Social change and the Officer Corps -- 3. The nineteenth-century Officer Corps -- 4. Threats to professional status -- 5. "Oh, these magicians and necromancers, they are ruining us" : the clash of sailors and engineers -- 6. The reinvention of the Officer Corps -- 7. History as a professional tool -- 8. Journals and staffs : organizational change -- 9. Auxillium ab Alto : the experience of war -- 10. Conclusion.

This book explores the ways that the Edwardian naval arms race forced the Royal Navy to address deep-seated structural problems caused by rapidly changing technology. It charts how an institution organised for three hundred years around sailing ships, faced the challenge of steel and steam, and what that meant for an officer class recruited largely on the basis of its social class rather than technical expertise.