The way of the ship : America's maritime history reenvisioned, 1600-2000 / Alex Roland, W. Jeffrey Bolster, Alexander Keyssar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roland, Alex, 1944-

Contributor:

Bolster, W. Jeffrey.

Keyssar, Alexander.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merchant marine--United States--History.

Merchant marine.

Navigation.

History.

Merchant mariners.

United States.

Merchant mariners--United States--History.

Shipping--United States--History.

Shipping.

Navigation--United States--History.

United States--History, Naval.

Naval history.

Physical Description:

xv, 521 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2008]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part I When Shipping Was King: Colonial Shipping and the Making of America, 1600-1783

1 The Colonies and the Sea 9

2 Richard Hakluyt's Maritime Plantations 14

3 John Winthrop's Godly Society by the Sea 20

4 Codfish, Timber, and Profit 31

5 An Infant Industry 37

6 The Shipping Business in 1700 45

7 The Eclipse of Boston 57

8 Coastal Commerce in Colonial America 69

9 The Sailor's Life 82

10 War and Transformation 88

Part II A World within Themselves: The Golden Age and the Rise of Inland Shipping, 1783-1861

11 A Tale of Two Ports 99

12 Robert Livingston and the Art of the Deal 105

13 Robert Fulton and the Art of Steaming 113

14 The War of 1812 123

15 Henry Shreve and the Taming of the River 130

16 DeWitt Clinton and the Canal Craze 139

17 Rushing to San Francisco 148

18 Steam, Speed, Schedule: A Business Model for the Golden Age 158

19 Matthew Fontaine Maury and the Growth of Infrastructure 172

Part III Maritime Industry and Labor in the Gilded Age, 1861-1914

20 The Hinge of War 181

21 Anaconda, Anyone? 184

22 Benjamin Franklin Isherwood and the Industrialization of Ship Production 189

23 The Alabama and Commerce War 194

24 Cornelius Vanderbilt and the Rise of the Railroad 199

25 Marcus Hanna and the Growth of Heartland Shipping 205

26 John Lynch and the Quest for a National Maritime Policy 211

27 John Roach and the New Shipbuilding 218

28 West Coast Shipping and the Rise of Maritime Labor 225

29 Andrew Furuseth, the Unions, and the Law 231

30 Ships, Steel, and More Labor 241

Part IV The Weight of War, 1905-1956

31 Mahan, Roosevelt, and the Seaborne Empire 255

32 War and Woodrow Wilson 264

33 Robert Dollar and the Business of Shipping, 1920-1929 275

34 A Tale of Two Harrys: The Radicalization of West Coast Labor 284

35 Hugo Black and Direct Subsidy, 1935-1941 293

36 The Henry Bacon and the War in the Atlantic, 1941-1945 302

37 Henry Kaiser and the War in the Pacific, 1941-1945 317

38 Edward Stettinius and Flags of Convenience 325

Part V Megaship: The Rise of the Invisible, Automated Bulk Carrier, 1956-2000

39 Daniel K. Ludwig and the Giant Ships 335

40 Malcom McLean and the Container Revolution 343

41 Farewell the Finger Pier: The Changing Face of Ports 353

42 The Shrinking Giant: Maritime Labor in an Age of Mechanization 362

43 Richard Nixon and the Quest for a National Maritime Policy 372

44 Hot Wars and Cold 381

45 Ted Arison and the Fun Cruise for Thousands 390

Appendix A World and U.S. Commercial Vessels 419

Appendix B Value of U.S. Waterborne Cargo, 1790-1994 427

Appendix C Maritime Labor, 1925-2000 437

Appendix D U.S. Shipbuilding, 1769-1969 439

Art Credits 507.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-505) and index.

ISBN:

9780470136003

0470136006

OCLC:

153580815

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