Seated by the sea
Subtitle: the maritime history of Portland, Maine, and its Irish longshoremen
By: Michael C. Connolly ; foreword by Joseph E. Brennan
Series: New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology; Working in the Americas; New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology; Working in the Americas
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780813034690
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Delightfully situated on a healthy hill" : the port of Portland before the Civil War; title: Black fades to green on the waterfront : nineteenth-century social, racial, and ethnic change; title: A mixed blessing : Portland at the turn of the twentieth century; title: Lost strikes and union affiliation : early twentieth-century labor militancy alongshore; title: Apex of the union and Catholic hierarchical influence; title: Longshore culture and the decline of the port of Portland in the mid- to late twentieth century; title: Conclusion: The port of Portland in the twenty-first century and its maritime future; title: Appendix A: Portland Town; title: Appendix B: Day of the Clipper; title: Appendix C: PLSBS retirement list as of January 1983; title: Appendix D: Oral histories; title: Appendix E: Longshore nicknames; title: Appendix F: Membership levels of the Portland Longshoremen's Benevolent Society.