Voyages, the Age of Engines

by Smith, Joshua M.

• ISBN13: 9780813033051
• ISBN10: 0813033055
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-22
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida

Summary

Intended as a text for college and advanced high school students, Voyages covers the entirety of the American maritime experience, from the discovery of the continent to the present. Published in cooperation with the National Maritime Historical Society, the selections chosen for this anthology of primary texts and images place equal emphasis on the ages of sail and steam, on the Atlantic and Pacific, on the Gulf Coasts and the Great Lakes, and on the high seas and inland rivers.

Author Biography

Joshua Smith is associate  professor of humanities at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
Postbellum	p. 1
Inland Navigation	p. 2
"Eighth Supervising District" (1865)	p. 3
Currier and Ives, "Ol' Man River" (1863-1884)	p. 11
Anonymous, "Proposed Ship Canal at Sturgeon Bay" (1870)	p. 13
"Down the Mississippi" (1874)	p. 16
Free Ships and Protectionism	p. 23
"The Injustice of Granting Subsidies" (1871)	p. 23
"Iron Shipbuilding" (1872)	p. 26
"Shall America Build Ships?" (1881)	p. 31
West Coast Racial Concerns	p. 36
"The Navy Shells an Alaskan Village" (1882)	p. 37
Congress, "Chinese Exclusion Act" (1882)	p. 41
"Whisky Traffic" (1884)	p. 46
Maritime Disaster and Rescue	p. 49
"Manful Efforts" (1877)	p. 50
"Wreck of the Steamer Metropolis" (1878)	p. 53
Paine's Celery Compound, "Gallant Ida Lewis" (1893)	p. 59
Fishing Woes and Worries	p. 62
"Oyster Troubles" (1874)	p. 63
Various, "Fortune Bay Outrage" (1878)	p. 68
"Chinese Fishermen" (1887)	p. 76
Maritime Labor Conditions	p. 85
"The Crimping System" (1895)	p. 86
International Seamen's Union, "The Red Record" (1898)	p. 90
"The Decadence of Our Merchant Marine" (1905)	p. 95
"Discharge book No. 80865" (1912)	p. 101
Navalism and Empire	p. 104
"The United States Looking Outward" (1890)	p. 105
Navy Department, "Communications and the Battle of Manila Bay" (1898)	p. 109
"Why the Nation Needs an Effective Navy" (1908)	p. 115
"What Our Navy Costs Us" (1909)	p. 121
Progressive at Sea	p. 129
Chicago Vice Commission, "Lake Steamers" (1910)	p. 130
"Steerage Women" (1911)	p. 133
"Canning Factories" (1909-1911)	p. 138
War, Depression, War Again	p. 141
The Great War	p. 142
"Neutral Shipping Rights" (1907)	p. 143
"The Sussex Sinking" (1916)	p. 148
"How the Laconia Sank" (1917)	p. 154
Sea and Sand	p. 160
Jack London, "Surfing: A Royal Sport" (1907)	p. 161
"Surf Fishing" (1920)	p. 171
Various, "Bathing Beauties" (1923)	p. 177
Merchant Marine Policy	p. 179
"A National Shipping Policy" (1915)	p. 179
"American Ships for Our American Trade" (1920)	p. 185
New York American, "Keep the Dollar at Home" (1927)	p. 191
Merchant Marine Commission, "The Importance of Shipping" (1937)	p. 193
Interwar Issues of Race and Labor	p. 202
"The Black Star Line" (1920)	p. 203
San Francisco Daily News, "Trouble at the Embarcadero" (1934)	p. 208
"The Problem of Seagoing Labor" (1937)	p. 213
"Our Union Can Be Strong" (1937)	p. 219
Sea Stories	p. 223
"Stewardess on the President Arthur" (1925)	p. 224
"Interview with a Mariner" (1939)	p. 226
"Portuguese Fisherman" (1939)	p. 229
War on the Horizon	p. 236
"Panay Telegrams" (1937)	p. 236
"Rattlesnakes of the Atlantic" (1941)	p. 240
"Arming Merchant Ships" (1941)	p. 248
Two-Ocean War	p. 252
"Prepare Yourself" (1942)	p. 253
"Action at ICOMP" (1942)	p. 259
"Torpedo Squadron Eight" (1942)	p. 265
Office of War Information, "Rosie the Riveter" (1943)	p. 273
Cold War and Beyond	p. 277
Postwar Merchant Marine	p. 278
"The Marshall Plan and the Merchant Marine" (1948)	p. 279
"Korean Refugees" (1950)	p. 284
"Big Labor Comes to the Fourth Coast" (1959)	p. 288
"Foreign Flag Rustbuckets" (1977)	p. 294
The Navy's Cold War	p. 300
"Cuba Quarantined" (1962)	p. 301
"Tonkin Gulf Speech" (1964)	p. 307
"600-Ship Fleet" (1982)	p. 310
Sea Change in Society	p. 316
"Biloxi Beach Wade-In" (1960)	p. 317
Polaris Action, "All Aboard Ethan Allen" (1960)	p. 322
"Z-Gram #66: Equal Opportunity" (1970)	p. 326
Tailhook and Beyond	p. 331
Inspector General's Office, "Victim 50" (1993)	p. 331
"Defending the Navy's Culture" (1996)	p. 335
"Too Many Captains" (1996)	p. 344
The Sea Around Us	p. 347
"National Effort in Oceanography" (1961)	p. 348
Stratton Commission, "Our Stake in the Uses of the Sea" (1969)	p. 354
"Defending American Fisheries" (1977)	p. 359
"Wreck of the Atocha" (1988)	p. 364
Ocean Liners to Cruise Ships	p. 370
American Export Lines, "Brings American Living Standards to Sea" (1950)	p. 371
United States Lines, "The End of an Era" (1969)	p. 374
Al Levett, "Cruise Ship Garbage" (1991)	p. 380
Maritime Environmentalism in the 1990s	p. 385
"Subsistence Living After the Exxon Valdez" (1993)	p. 386
"Makah Whaling" (1998)	p. 391
"Counterattack Against the Pathogens of Global Commerce" (1999)	p. 400
The War on Terror	p. 406
"Operation Iraqi Freedom" (2003)	p. 406
"Port Security" (2004)	p. 413
"Dubai Ports Press Briefing" (2006)	p. 420
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