Coal, steam and ships : engineering, enterprise and empire on the nineteenth-century seas
Crosbie Smith explores the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers, proprietors and the public. Eyewitness accounts show in rich detail how these enterprises engineered their ships, constructed empire-wide systems of steam navigation and won or lo...
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Médium: | E-kniha |
Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2018
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Edice: | Science in History Ser
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Žánr/forma: | monografie elektronické knihy |
ISBN: | 978-1-108-19532-4 978-1-107-19672-8 |
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