War at Sea in the Ironclad Age (2000)

Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 030435273X

Condition: Very Good

There is a name on the inside of the front cover, and the book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Contents Description:

The most dramatic artefact of the military-industrial revolution was the steam-powered warship. In the mid nineteenth century the major naval powers began to revolutionize their navies, dispensing with wood, sail and cannonballs and embracing steel, steam and shells. At the height of the Victorian era, it was the ironclad warship that made it possible for colonial powers to acquire and control their overseas empires. This narrative history charts the development of these warships from the first French floating batteries to the famous Dreadnoughts. - from the back cover