Naval leadership and management, 1650-1950 : essays in honour of Michael Duffy / edited by Helen Doe and Richard Harding.

Other author Harding, Richard, 1953-
Other author Doe, Helen.
Other author Duffy, Michael, 1944-
Format Book
Publication InfoWoodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2012.
Descriptionxiv, 206 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Great Britain. Royal Navy--History.
Great Britain. Royal Navy--Officers. --History.
Naval art and science--Great Britain. --History.
Leadership--Case studies.

Contents Michael Duffy : an appreciation / Roger Knight -- Introduction / Richard Harding -- Admiral Rainier's management challenges, 1794-1805 / Peter Ward -- Neglect or treason : leadership failure in the mid-eighteenth-century Royal Navy / Richard Harding -- Who has command? The Royal Artillerymen aboard Royal Navy warships in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars / Gareth Cole -- "The marine officer is a raw lad and therefore troublesome' : Royal Naval officers and the officers of the Marines, 1755-1797 / Britt Zerbe -- High exertions and difficult cases : the work of the transport agent at Portsmouth and Southampton, 1795-1797 / Roger Morriss -- Forgotten or ignored, the officers at Invergordon : 'We are doing this for you as well you know' / Mike Farquharson-Roberts -- 'To excite the whole company to courage and bravery' : the incentivisation of British privateering crews, 1702-1815 / David J. Starkey -- New kinds of discipline : the Royal Navy in the second half of the nineteenth century / Oliver Walton -- Towards a hierarchy of management : the Victorian and Edwardian navy, 1860-1918 / Mary Jones -- Leadership training for midshipmen, c.1919-1939 / Elinor Romans.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-201) and index.
LCCN 2012371363
ISBN9781843836957 (hbk.)
ISBN1843836955 (hbk.)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks V55.G7 N383 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold