Industralizing American shipbuilding
Subtitle: the transformation of ship design and construction, 1820-1920
By: William H. Thiesen ; foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene A. Smith.
Series: New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Shipbuilding -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Shipbuilding -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Shipbuilding industry -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Shipbuilding industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The origin of practical shipbuilding methods; title: The growth of scientific shipbuilding in Great Britain; title: Practical shipbuilding develops in the United States; title: The golden era of urban American shipbuilding; title: Building iron ships in a wooden shipbuilding culture; title: A clash of cultures : the failure of theory in a practical shipbuilding world; title: An American naval renaissance and the introduction of theoretical ship design to the United States; title: The new American style of shipbuilding.