Ships for the Seven Seas Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism
Thomas 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 AwardOriginally published in 1996. Sustained by a skilled work force and the Pennsylvania...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Colección: | Studies in industry and society ;
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Shipbuilding as much as possible advanced: The rise and decline of wooden shipbuilding,1640-1870
- A small margin: Ironclads and the transition from wooden to iron shipbuilding
- The American Clyde: Corporate and proprietary Capitalism in the Philadelphia maritime economy, 1865-1875
- Workshop of the world : Commerce, crafts, and class conflict, 1875-1885
- A vicious quality: Cramp and the origins of the Military-Industrial Complex, 1885-1898
- New departure:Growth and Crisis, 1998-1914
- This machine of war: World War I
- What next? The Post War Depression, 1919-1929.
