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Heinrich, Thomas R.

Ships for the Seven Seas Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism / Thomas R. Heinrich. - 1 online resource (1 online resource x, 290 pages) : illustrations - Studies in industry and society ; 12 . - Studies in industry and society ; 12. Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1997

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-268) and index.

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.

Open Access

ISBN: 9781421436876

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Shipbuilding industry.
Shipbuilding industry--History.--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Philadelphia, Pa.
Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: VM299.6 / .H45 1997

Dewey Class. No.: 338.4/762382/0974811