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Naval Power and British Culture, 1760–1850

Public Trust and Government Ideology
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Recent work on the growth of British naval power during the 18th and 19th centuries has emphasized developments in the political, constitutional and financial infrastructure of the British state. This book takes these considerations one-step further, and examines the relationship of administrative culture within government bureaucracy to contemporary perceptions of efficiency in the period 1770-1840. By public culture is meant the administrative ideas, attitudes, structures, practices and mores of public employees. Inevitably these changed over time and this shift is examined as the naval departments passed through times of crisis and peace. Focusing on the transition in the culture of government employees in the naval establishments in London - in the Navy and Victualling Offices - as well as the victualling yard towns along the Thames and Medway, this work concerns itself with attitudes at all levels of the organization. Yet it is concerned above all with those whose views and conduct are seldom reported, the clerks, artificers, secretaries and commissioners; those employees of government who lived in local communities and took their work experience home with them. As such, this book illuminates not only the employees of government, but also the society which surrounded and impinged upon naval establishments, and the reciprocal nature of their attitudes and influences.

Author Biography:

Dr Roger Morriss works in the Department of History, at the University of Exeter, UK.
Release date NZ
February 25th, 2004
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
306
Dimensions
156x234x25
ISBN-13
9780754630319
Product ID
27120587

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