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Author:   Thomas Heinrich (Baruch College)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Volume:   12
Weight:   0.535kg
ISBN:  

9781421436852

ISBN 10:   142143685
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   19 May 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgements Prologue Chapter 1: ""Ship Building as Much as Possible Advanced"": The Rise and Decline of Wooden Shipbuilding, 1640-1870 Chapter 2: ""A Small Margin"": Ironclads and the Transition from Wooden to Iron Shipbuilding Chapter 3: The American Clyde: Corporate and Proprietary Capitalism in the Philadelphia Maritime Economy, 1865-1875 Chapter 4: Workshop of the World: Commerce, Crafts, and Class Conflict, 1875-1885 Chapter 5: A Vicious Quality: Cramp and the Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex, 1885-1898 Chapter 6: New Departure: Growth and Crisis, 1898-1914 Chapter 7: This Machine of War: World War I Chapter 8: What Next? The Postwar Depression, 1919-1929 Epilogue Abbreviations Notes Essay on Sources Index"

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Heinrich has written a detailed, compelling account of iron and steel shipbuilding... This is a finely crafted book on a fascinating period when technical transformations, political compromises, broad economic changes, and world power aspirations reconfigured American shipbuilding... Well-designed and nicely illustrated. -- John K. Brown * H-Business * A comprehensive study of Philadelphia shipbuilding in its entire historical, economic, and entrepreneurial context. * Lloyd's List * A lucid and instructive study. -- Robin Craig * Mariner's Mirror *

A lucid and instructive study. --Robin Craig Mariner's Mirror Heinrich has written a detailed, compelling account of iron and steel shipbuilding... This is a finely crafted book on a fascinating period when technical transformations, political compromises, broad economic changes, and world power aspirations reconfigured American shipbuilding... Well-designed and nicely illustrated. --John K. Brown H-Business A comprehensive study of Philadelphia shipbuilding in its entire historical, economic, and entrepreneurial context. --Lloyd's List

Heinrich has written a detailed, compelling account of iron and steel shipbuilding . . . This is a finely crafted book on a fascinating period when technical transformations, political compromises, broad economic changes, and world power aspirations reconfigured American shipbuilding . . . Well-designed and nicely illustrated. -John K. Brown, H-Business A comprehensive study of Philadelphia shipbuilding in its entire historical, economic, and entrepreneurial context. -Lloyd's List A lucid and instructive study. -Robin Craig, Mariner's Mirror

A lucid and instructive study. --Robin Craig Mariner's Mirror A comprehensive study of Philadelphia shipbuilding in its entire historical, economic, and entrepreneurial context. --Lloyd's List Heinrich has written a detailed, compelling account of iron and steel shipbuilding... This is a finely crafted book on a fascinating period when technical transformations, political compromises, broad economic changes, and world power aspirations reconfigured American shipbuilding... Well-designed and nicely illustrated. --John K. Brown H-Business

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Thomas R. Heinrich is senior historian at the History Factory in Washington, D.C.

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