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OverviewThomas R. Heinrich explores American shipbuilding from the workshop level to subcontracting networks spanning the Delaware Valley. Winner of the North American Society for Oceanic History's John Lyman Book Award Originally published in 1996. Sustained by a skilled work force and the Pennsylvania iron and steel industry, Philadelphia shipbuilders negotiated the transition from wooden to iron hull construction earlier and far more easily that most other builders. Between the Civil War and World War I, Philadelphia emerged as the vital center of American shipbuilding, constructing a wide variety of vessel types such as passenger liners, freighters, battleships, and cruisers. In Ships for the Seven Seas, Thomas R. Heinrich explores this complex industry from the workshop level to subcontracting networks spanning the Delaware Valley. He describes entrepreneurial strategies and industrial change that facilitated the rise of major shipbuilding firms; how naval architecture, marine engineering, and craft skills evolved as iron and steel overtook wood as the basic construction material; and how changes in domestic and international trade and the rise of the American steel navy helped generate vessel contracts for local builders. Heinrich also examines the formation of the military-industrial complex in the context of naval contracting. Contributing to current debates in business history, Ships for the Seven Seas explains how proprietary ownership and batch production strategies enabled late nineteenth-century builders to supply volatile markets with custom-built steamships. But large-scale naval construction in the 1920s eroded production flexibility, Heinrich argues, and since then, ill-conceived merchant marine policies and naval contracting procedures have brought about a structural crisis in American shipbuilding and the demise of the venerable Philadelphia shipyards. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Thomas Heinrich (Baruch College)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Volume: 12 Weight: 0.535kg ISBN: 9781421436852ISBN 10: 142143685 Pages: 308 Publication Date: 19 May 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. 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"ReviewsHeinrich 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 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 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 Author InformationThomas R. Heinrich is senior historian at the History Factory in Washington, D.C. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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