British naval policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli era, 1866-1880

Tables A note on quotations 1. Introduction: the industrial revolution and the navy 2. Strategic parameters 3. Administration, politics and economics 4. Derby, Disraeli and a mutinous admiralty 1866-1868 5. Hugh Childers at the admiralty 1868-1870 6. Of captains and Lords 7. Collapse and recovery 1870-1874 8. Politics, finance and the navy 1874-1880 9. Admiralty administration: Childers, Goschen and the historians 10. Rivals 11. Strategic planning and imperial defence 12. Conclusion 13. Epilogue the end of an era Notes Bibliography Index.