The maritime history of Massachusetts, 1783-1860
By: by Samuel Eliot Morison ...
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 1921
Place of publication: Boston; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Massachusetts -- Commerce -- History.; Massachusetts -- History.
Description: The Harvard educated historian relates the history of seafaring Massachusetts during the period when the clipper ship dominated the seas. In his preface Morison states that this is "no catalogue of ships, or a naval chronicle, but a story of maritime enterprise; and of the shipping, seaborne commerce, whaling and fishing belonging to one American Commonwealth."