The British Navy, economy and society in the Seven Years War. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Marine, économie et société
• Further Information: Note: Christian Buchet.
• Other Names: Buchet, Christian; Higgie, Anita; Duffy, Michael
• 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 Out -- Sales 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 Quantities. The 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 Men -- 6. 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.
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge : Boydell Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 302 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 359.8094109033; Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 -- Naval operations, British; Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 -- Logistics -- Great Britain; Logistics -- History -- 18th century; Armed Forces -- Supplies and stores; Logistics; Great Britain; Electronic books; History; History -- 18th century; Supplies and stores -- History -- 18th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782041016
• Related ISBNs: 178204101X; 9781843838012
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.