The way of the ship : America's maritime history reenvisioned, 1600-2000 /
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Hoboken, N.J. :
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: When shipping was king: colonial shipping and the making of America, 1600- 1783
- 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
- The Coastal Trade
- The Sailor₂s Life
- War and Transformation
- Part II: A world within themselves: the Golden Age and the rise of inland shipping, 1783 1861
- Introduction
- 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 Shipping
- John Lynch and the Quest for 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 Labor
- Hugo Black and Direct Subsidy, 1935-1941
- Henry Bacon and War in the Atlantic, 1941-1945
- Henry Kaiser and War in the Pacific, 1941-1945.
- Edward Stettinius and Flags of Expediency
- Part V: Supership: the rise of the invisible, automated mass 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 Confronts Mechanization and Automation
- Richard Nixon and the Quest for National Maritime Policy
- Hot Wars and Cold
- Ted Arison and the Fun Cruise for Thousands
- Conclusion.
- Epilogue
- Appendix A-1: World and Select National Commercial Fleets, 1850-2000
- Appendix A-2: U.S. Commercial Vessels, 1934-1997
- Appendix A-3: Documented U.S Merchant Vessels in Foreign and Domestic Trade
- Appendix B: Value of U.S. Waterborne Cargo, 1790-1994
- Appendix C: Maritime Labor, 1925-2000
- Appendix D: U.S. Shipbuilding, 1769-1969.