A01=James Pritchard
Author_James Pritchard
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Product details
- ISBN 9780773538740
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2011
- Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
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Pritchard describes the domestic and international political circumstances in France that gave rise to the expedition, outlining strategy and politics in the context of colonial defence and continental ambition. He reconstructs the events that contributed to the failure of the expedition - human and institutional weakness, weather, spoiled provisions, disease, and the death of the commanding admiral. Anatomy of a Naval Disaster exposes the ambitions and frailties of men, the arbitrariness of success, and the limits of power in the eighteenth century.
James Pritchard is a member of the Department of History at Queen's University.
