Title: The way of the ship : America's maritime history reenvisioned, 1600-2000 /
Authors: Roland, Alex, 1944-; Bolster, W. Jeffrey.; Keyssar, Alexander.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Merchant marine United States History; Merchant mariners United States History.; Shipping United States History; Navigation United States History.; United States History, Naval.
Abstract: From the Publisher: An Enlightening, Expanded View Of American Maritime History. From Native Americans with birch bark canoes and inventive colonists who took fishing shallops and laid decks over them for coastal trading to the rise of the automated mass carrier and ever-bigger passenger cruise ships, this book tells the story of four hundred years of America's maritime history. It is filled with powerful and evocative images of ships such as the Mayflower, Savannah, Flying Cloud, Alabama, Sea-Land McLean, and Exxon Valdez; ports, including Boston, New Orleans, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Salem, Buffalo, and Seattle; and people such as Joseph Peabody, Robert Fulton, Mark Twain, Donald McKay, Cornelius Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan, and Malcom McLean. The Way of the Ship offers a global perspective and considers both oceanic shipping and domestic shipping along America's coasts and inland waterways, with explanations of the forces that influenced the way of the ship. The result is an eye-opening, authoritative look at American maritime history and the ways it helped shape the nation's history. Includes 16 color pages of marine paintings by John Stobart. This is part of a two-book project created by the American Maritime History Project, Inc., an independent enterprise with an office at the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York.
Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: When Shipping Was King: Colonial Shipping And The Making Of America, 1600- 1783 -- 1: Colonies and the sea -- 2: Richard Hakluyt's of maritime plantations -- 3: John Winthrop's godly society by the sea -- 4: Codfish, timber, and profit -- 5: Infant industry -- 6: Shipping business in 1700 -- 7: Eclipse of Boston -- 8: Coastal commerce in colonial America -- 9: Sailor's life -- 10: War and transformation -- Part 2: World Within Themselves: The Golden Age And The Rise Of Inland Shipping, 1783-1861 -- 11: Tale of two ports -- 12: Robert Livingston and the art of the deal -- 13: Robert Fulton and the art of steaming -- 14: War of 1812 -- 15: Henry Shreve and the taming of the river -- 16: DeWitt Clinton and the canal craze -- 17: Rushing to San Francisco -- 18: Steam, speed, schedule: a business model for the golden age -- 19: Matthew Fontaine Maury and the growth of infrastructure -- Part 3: Maritime Industry And Labor In The Gilded Age, 1861-1914 -- 20: Hinge of war -- 21: Anaconda, anyone? -- 22: Benjamin Franklin Isherwood and the industrialization of ship production -- 23: Alabama and commerce war -- 24: Cornelius Vanderbilt and the rise of the railroad -- 25: Marcus Hanna and the growth of heartland shipping -- 26: John Lynch and the quest for national maritime policy -- 27: John Roach and the new shipbuilding -- 28: West Coast shipping and the rise of maritime labor -- 29: Andrew Furuseth, the unions, and the law -- 30: Ships, steel, and more labor.