The Way of the Ship America's Maritime History Reenvisoned, 1600-2000

by Roland, Alex; Bolster, W. Jeffrey; Keyssar, Alexander

• ISBN13: 9780470136003
• ISBN10: 0470136006
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-16
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The history of shipping in America, as traditionally recounted, is based primarily on the fortunes of the American merchant marine. This book offers a global perspective and considers oceanic shipping and domestic shipping along America's coasts and inland waterways, with explanations of the forces that influenced the way of the ship. The result is an eye-opening look at American maritime history and the ways it helped shaped the nation's history. It features beautiful color images of paintings by today's premier marine artist, John Stobart.

Author Biography

ALEX ROLAND is a Professor of History at Duke University, where he teaches military history and the history of technology. He previously taught at the U.S. Army War College and the U.S. Naval Academy. The author of several books, he is currently writing a biography of Robert Fulton.

W. JEFFREY BOLSTER, a maritime historian, is a Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. His book Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year."

ALEXANDER KEYSSAR is the Stirling Professor of History and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts, which won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians and was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year." His 2000 book, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States, received the Beveridge Prize from the American Historical Association and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
When Shipping Was King: Colonial Shipping and the Making of America, 1600-1783
The Colonies and the Sea	p. 9
Richard Hakluyt's Maritime Plantations	p. 14
John Winthrop's Godly Society by the Sea	p. 20
Codfish, Timber, and Profit	p. 31
An Infant Industry	p. 37
The Shipping Business in 1700	p. 45
The Eclipse of Boston	p. 57
Coastal Commerce in Colonial America	p. 69
The Sailor's Life	p. 82
War and Transformation	p. 88
A World within Themselves: The Golden Age and the Rise of Inland Shipping, 1783-1861
A Tale of Two Ports	p. 99
Robert Livingston and the Art of the Deal	p. 105
Robert Fulton and the Art of Steaming	p. 113
The War of 1812	p. 123
Henry Shreve and the Taming of the River	p. 130
DeWitt Clinton and the Canal Craze	p. 139
Rushing to San Francisco	p. 148
Steam, Speed, Schedule: A Business Model for the Golden Age	p. 158
Matthew Fontaine Maury and the Growth of Infrastructure	p. 172
Maritime Industry and Labor in the Gilded Age, 1861-1914
The Hinge of War	p. 181
Anaconda, Anyone?	p. 184
Benjamin Franklin Isherwood and the Industrialization of Ship Production	p. 189
The Alabama and Commerce War	p. 194
Cornelius Vanderbilt and the Rise of the Railroad	p. 199
Marcus Hanna and the Growth of Heartland Shipping	p. 205
John Lynch and the Quest for a National Maritime Policy	p. 211
John Roach and the New Shipbuilding	p. 218
West Coast Shipping and the Rise of Maritime Labor	p. 225
Andrew Furuseth, the Unions, and the Law	p. 231
Ships, Steel, and More Labor	p. 241
The Weight of War, 1905-1956
Mahan, Roosevelt, and the Seaborne Empire	p. 255
War and Woodrow Wilson	p. 264
Robert Dollar and the Business of Shipping, 1920-1929	p. 275
A Tale of Two Harrys: The Radicalization of West Coast Labor	p. 284
Hugo Black and Direct Subsidy, 1935-1941	p. 293
The Henry Bacon and the War in the Atlantic, 1941-1945	p. 302
Henry Kaiser and the War in the Pacific, 1941-1945	p. 317
Edward Stettinius and Flags of Convenience	p. 325
Megaship: The Rise of the Invisible, Automated Bulk Carrier, 1956-2000
Daniel K. Ludwig and the Giant Ships	p. 335
Malcom McLean and the Container Revolution	p. 343
Farewell the Finger Pier: The Changing Face of Ports	p. 353
The Shrinking Giant: Maritime Labor in an Age of Mechanization	p. 362
Richard Nixon and the Quest for a National Maritime Policy	p. 372
Hot Wars and Cold	p. 381
Ted Arison and the Fun Cruise for Thousands	p. 390
Conclusion	p. 400
Epilogue	p. 413
World and U.S. Commercial Vessels	p. 419
Value of U.S. Waterborne Cargo, 1790-1994	p. 427
Maritime Labor, 1925-2000	p. 437
U.S. Shipbuilding, 1769-1969	p. 439
Glossary	p. 445
Bibliographic Essay	p. 451
Notes	p. 456
Art Credits	p. 507
Index	p. 509
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