The way of the ship : America's maritime history reenvisioned, 1600-2000
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The way of the ship : America's maritime history reenvisioned, 1600-2000
John Wiley & Sons, c2008
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references and index
収録内容
- Introduction
- Part I: When shipping was king: colonial shipping and the making of America, 1600-1783
- The colonies and the sea
- Richard Hakluyt's of maritime plantations
- John Winthrop's godly society by the sea
- Codfish, timber, and profit
- An infant industry
- The shipping business in 1700
- The eclipse of Boston
- Coastal commerce in colonial America
- The sailor's life
- War and transformation
- Part II: A world within themselves: the golden age and the rise of inland shipping, 1783-1861
- A tale of two ports
- Robert Livingston and the art of the deal
- Robert Fulton and the art of steaming
- The war of 1812
- Henry Shreve and the taming of the river
- DeWitt Clinton and the canal craze
- Rushing to San Francisco
- Steam, speed, schedule: a business model for the golden age
- Matthew Fontaine Maury and the growth of infrastructure
- Part III: Maritime industry and labor in the Gilded Age, 1861-1914
- The hinge of war
- Anaconda, anyone?
- Benjamin Franklin Isherwood and the industrialization of ship production
- The Alabama and commerce war
- Cornelius Vanderbilt and the rise of the railroad
- Marcus Hanna and the growth of heartland sipping
- John Lynch and the quest for a national maritime policy
- John Roach and the new shipbuilding
- West Coast shipping and the rise of maritime labor
- Andrew Furuseth, the unions, and the law
- Ships, steel, and more labor
- Part IV: The weight of war, 1905-1956
- Mahan, Roosevelt, and the seaborne empire
- War and Woodrow Wilson
- Robert Dollar and the business of shipping, 1920-1929
- A tale of two Harrys: the radicalization of West Coast labor
- Hugo Black and direct subsidy, 1935-1941
- The Henry Bacon and the war in the Atlantic, 1941-1945
- Henry Kaiser and war in the Pacific, 1941-1945
- Edward Stettinius and flags of convenience
- Part V: Megaship: the rise of the invisible, automated bulk carrier, 1956-2000
- Daniel K. Ludwig and the giant ships
- Malcom McLean and the container revolution
- Farewell the finger pier: the changing face of ports
- The shrinking giant: maritime labor in an age of mechanization
- Richard Nixon and the quest for a national maritime policy
- Hot wars and cold
- Ted Arison and the fun cruise for thousands
- Conclusion
- Epilogue