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505 0 a| 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 -- Appendix 1: First Lords, First Sea Lords and Permanent Secretaries, 1805-1927 -- Appendix 2: Acronyms and definitions.;

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The making of the modern admiralty : British naval policy-making 1805-1927 / C.I. Hamilton.

Author/creator	Hamilton, C. I.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Description	x, 345 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Cover image
Subjects	Great Britain. Admiralty--History. --19th century. Great Britain. Admiralty--History. --20th century. Great Britain. Royal Navy--History. --19th century. Great Britain. Royal Navy--History. --20th century. Sea-power--Great Britain. --History. --19th century. Sea-power--Great Britain. --History. --20th century. Great Britain--History, Naval. --19th century. Great Britain--History, Naval. --20th century. Great Britain--Military policy.

Series	Cambridge military histories Cambridge military histories. ^A594156
Contents	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 -- Appendix 1: First Lords, First Sea Lords and Permanent Secretaries, 1805-1927 -- Appendix 2: Acronyms and definitions.
Abstract	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2010038584
ISBN	9780521765183 (hardback)
ISBN	0521765188 (hardback)

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