Title The British navy, economy and society in the Seven Years War / Christian Buchet ; translated by Anita Higgie and Michael Duffy

Edition English ed Published Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource Contents Frontcover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: The General Organisation of Victualling the British Navy; 1. 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); 2. The Victualling Board and the Seven Years War; Victualling Methods; Tight State Control; Financial Practices; 3. 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'Part Two: The Bases; 4. 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; 5. 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; 6. Victualling in the Secondary Home Ports and in the Overseas Stations How This Victualling Was Carried OutSales and Marketing Networks; John Biggin: Merchant on a Worldwide Scale; 7. 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); Part Three: The Main Markets; 8. Meat; Everyday Functioning and Costs: The Difficulties; The Contractors; 9. Cereals and Pulses The Evolution of Different Segments of the Market in Terms of Prices and QuantitiesThe Body of Contractors and What It Reveals; 10. 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; Conclusion; Appendices; 1. Ordinary Charge of the Victualling Board in 1747; 2. Commissioners of the Victualling Board, 1755-63; 3. The Structure of British Naval Administration; 4. Itemised Distribution of Victualling Board Expenses, 1756-9, 1762-3 5. List of Victuals on the Southsea Castle Leaving for the East Indies at the End of 1759 with a Crew of 130 Men6. Process to Be Used in Curing Beef and Pork; 7. Wage Totals, According to Activity, Paid to Victualling Personnel in the London Yard in the First Quarter of 1761; 8. Supervisory Staff of the Victualling Board, 1761; Sources and Bibliography; Index; Backcover Summary This 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. It also shows how long-standing debates between those who favoured a state-controlled system and those who argued for the greater flexibility afforded by commercial contracting were resolved by developing a system which expertly balanced the two approaches. The author goes beyond maritime history to discuss how naval supply provided a huge stimulus for British finance, agriculture Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Feb. 22, 2013) Subject Great Britain. Royal Navy -- History -- 18th century SUBJECT Great Britain. Royal Navy fast Subject Operational rations (Military supplies) -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 -- Naval operations, British Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 -- Food supply -- Great Britain Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. HISTORY -- Modern -- 18th Century. Economics Food supply Operational rations (Military supplies) Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781782041016 178204101X

Other Titles Marine, économie et société. English

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