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Format: 1 online resource (xiii, 302 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 9781782041016 (ebook)

Uniform Title: Marine, économie et société.

Content: A very important analysis of British naval victualling, with wide implications for economic as well as naval history.' N.A.M. RODGER, All Souls College, Oxford. This book, by a leading French maritime historian, discusses how Britain's success in the Seven Years War (1756-63) was made possible by the creation of a superb victualling system for the British navy. It shows how this system had been developed over the preceding centuries, how it balanced carefully the advantages of state control with the flexibility of commercial contracting, and how the system was designed to mesh with and support British strategic ambitions. It provides rich detail on how the system worked, how it was administered, how key products were priced, bought, stored and transported, and how it compared, very favourably, to equivalent systems in France and elsewhere. The book shows how the increasing efficiency of the Victualling Board enabled the navy to take advantage of agricultural, commercial and financial advances in the British economy to supply its front line fighting forces over ever longer distances and ever longer periods. The Victualling Board was one of a number of interfaces between the demands of the State and the supply facilities of the economy, to their mutual benefit. As a major purchaser through competitive tender, the Board made a positive contribution to the entrepreneurial spirit of British society. The book goes beyond maritime history by discussing how naval supply provided a huge stimulus for British finance, agriculture, trade and manufacturing, and argues that all this together was one of the principal causes of Britain's later Industrial Revolution. CHRISTIAN BUCHET is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre d'Etudes de la Mer at the Institut Catholique de Paris. Besides comparative studies of the British and French navies 1688-1783, he has written extensively on maritime environmental issues and is Secretary General of the National Council of the French Archipelago.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). , The General Organisation of Victualling the British Navy -- , From an Empirically-Based Organisation to a Centrally Planned System: The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Victualling Board , The Experimental Period (1546-1715) , The Period of Development (1715-56) , The Victualling Board and the Seven Years War , Victualling Methods , Tight State Control , Financial Practices , Food Rations and Their Evolution , Quantitatively Sufficient and Qualitatively Sound Food Rations , Innovations or Food Revolution? , Victualling and Strategy: The Example of the 'Western Squadron' , The Bases -- , The Victualling Board's Principal Bases , The Development of an Infrastructure of Port Facilities , The Respective Importance of the Victualling Board Bases in Victualling the Royal Navy , An Example of a Victualling Yard under the Jurisdiction of the Victualling Board: Plymouth, Satellite of British Logistical Power , Plymouth Personnel and Victualling , Resources and Management of Victualling at Plymouth , Victualling in the Secondary Home Ports and in the Overseas Stations , How This Victualling Was Carried Out , Sales and Marketing Networks , John Biggin: Merchant on a Worldwide Scale , An Example of Stations Managed by a Private Contractor in the Service of the Crown: The Caribbean Staging-Posts , The Establishment of a System of Victualling in the West Indies under the Jurisdiction of the Victualling Board (1689-1715) , Empirically Driven Improvements (1715-48) , The Age of the Contractor (1756-63) , The Main Markets -- , Meat , Everyday Functioning and Costs: The Difficulties , The Contractors , Cereals and Pulses , The Evolution of Different Segments of the Market in Terms of Prices and Quantities , The Body of Contractors and What It Reveals , The Remaining Sectors: Beverages, Butter and Cheese, Salt, Olive Oil and Raisins , Supplying the Navy with Beverages , Annual Contracts for Butter, Cheese and Salt , The Olive Oil and Raisins Market

Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9781843838012

Language: English

URL: http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781782041016/type/BOOK