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Автор: Jacqueline Elston
Год: 2011
Издание:
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Страниц: 468
ISBN: 9783844316056
This work examines the effect that mid 19th century steamship development had on long distance trade and communications between Britain and Australia. It takes a holistic approach, drawing together a number of diverse but related themes and using much previously unseen material to challenge many former assumptions. The role of steamships is revealed as engines of imperial ambition with the British Government operating a perfidious double-edged policy; publicly espousing ‘free trade'' but in practice stifling it with subsidies to favoured steamship companies. This practice was designed to obtain a ‘navy on the cheap'' but created such disruption to communication with the emerging colonies that the tension erupted in the political press of the day. In addition this study reveals the triumphs and disasters of running a steamship company, namely the Liverpool & Australian Navigation Co who operated Brunel''s SS Great Britain, without government subsidies. Steamship...
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