Civilian Specialists at War
Britain's Transport Experts and the First World War
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2020
University of London Press (Verlag)
978-1-909646-90-2 (ISBN)
University of London Press (Verlag)
978-1-909646-90-2 (ISBN)
The war of 1914-1918 was the first great general
conflict to be fought between highly industrial societies able to manufacture
and transport immense quantities of goods over land and sea. Yet the armies of
the First World War were too vast in scale, their movements too complex, and
the infrastructure upon which they depended too specialised to be operated by
professional soldiers alone. In Civilian Expertise at War, Christopher Phillips
examines the relationship between industrial society and industrial warfare
through the lens of Britain's transport experts. He analyses the multiple
connections between the army, the government, and the senior executives of some
of pre-war Britain's largest industrial enterprises to illustrate the British
army's evolving understanding both of industrial warfare's particular character
and of the role to be played by non-military experts in the prosecution of such
a conflict.
This book reveals that Britain's transport experts were a
key component of Britain's conduct of the First World War. It demonstrates that
a pre-existing professional relationship between the army, government, and
private enterprise existed before 1914, and that these bonds were strengthened
by the outbreak of war. It charts the range of wartime roles into which
Britain's transport experts were thrust in the opening years of the conflict,
as both military and political leaders grasped with the challenges before them.
It details the application of recognisably civilian technologies and methods to
the prosecution of war and documents how - in the conflict's principal theatre,
the western front - the freedom of action for Britain's transport experts was
constrained by the political and military requirements of coalition
warfare.
Christopher Phillips is a lecturer in international security in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth
University.
conflict to be fought between highly industrial societies able to manufacture
and transport immense quantities of goods over land and sea. Yet the armies of
the First World War were too vast in scale, their movements too complex, and
the infrastructure upon which they depended too specialised to be operated by
professional soldiers alone. In Civilian Expertise at War, Christopher Phillips
examines the relationship between industrial society and industrial warfare
through the lens of Britain's transport experts. He analyses the multiple
connections between the army, the government, and the senior executives of some
of pre-war Britain's largest industrial enterprises to illustrate the British
army's evolving understanding both of industrial warfare's particular character
and of the role to be played by non-military experts in the prosecution of such
a conflict.
This book reveals that Britain's transport experts were a
key component of Britain's conduct of the First World War. It demonstrates that
a pre-existing professional relationship between the army, government, and
private enterprise existed before 1914, and that these bonds were strengthened
by the outbreak of war. It charts the range of wartime roles into which
Britain's transport experts were thrust in the opening years of the conflict,
as both military and political leaders grasped with the challenges before them.
It details the application of recognisably civilian technologies and methods to
the prosecution of war and documents how - in the conflict's principal theatre,
the western front - the freedom of action for Britain's transport experts was
constrained by the political and military requirements of coalition
warfare.
Christopher Phillips is a lecturer in international security in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth
University.
ChristopherPhillips is a lecturer in international security in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | New Historical Perspectives |
| Zusatzinfo | 4 maps, 14 illustrations, and 13 tables; 31 Illustrations |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 163 x 245 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Technik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-909646-90-3 / 1909646903 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-909646-90-2 / 9781909646902 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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