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Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty's Navy
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Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty's Navy Hardcover - 2008

by Reidy, Michael S

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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 1st printing of 1st edition. A clean fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket. A detailed examination of some of the many contributions of the scientific & maritime communities to and collaborations with the Royal Navy which aided its dominance of the world's oceans in the 18th century, illustrated.
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  • Title Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty's Navy
  • Author Reidy, Michael S
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st printing of 1st edition
  • Condition Used - A clean fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket
  • Pages 392
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
  • Date 2008
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2021341
  • ISBN 9780226709321 / 0226709329
  • Weight 1.49 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.93 x 6.48 x 1.2 in (22.68 x 16.46 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - History, Oceanography - Research - Great Britain -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007028060
  • Dewey Decimal Code 359.009

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Summary

In the first half of the nineteenth century, the British sought to master the physical properties of the oceans; in the second half, they lorded over large portions of the oceans' outer rim. The dominance of Her Majesty's navy was due in no small part to collaboration between the British Admiralty, the maritime community, and the scientific elite. Together, they transformed the vast emptiness of the ocean into an ordered and bounded grid. In the process, the modern scientist emerged. Science itself expanded from a limited and local undertaking receiving parsimonious state support to worldwide and relatively well financed research involving a hierarchy of practitioners.Analyzing the economic, political, social, and scientific changes on which the British sailed to power, Tides of History shows how the British Admiralty collaborated closely not only with scholars, such as William Whewell, but also with the maritime community —sailors, local tide table makers, dockyard officials, and harbormasters—in order to systematize knowledge of the world's oceans, coasts, ports, and estuaries. As Michael S. Reidy points out, Britain's security and prosperity as a maritime nation depended on its ability to maneuver through the oceans and dominate coasts and channels. The practice of science and the rise of the scientist became inextricably linked to the process of European expansion.

About the author

Michael S. Reidy is associate professor in history and philosophy at Montana State University and coauthor, with Alan G. Gross and Joseph E. Harmon, of Communicating Science: The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present.

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