A foremost authority has written the first comprehensive reference about the U.S. Merchant Marine and American shipping from the introduction of steamships to today's diesel containerships--showing the impact of politics, economics, and technology on maritime history during the last two centuries. Over 500 entries describe people, private companies, business and labor groups, engineering and technological developments, government agencies, terms, key laws, landmark cases, issues, events, and ships of note. Short lists of references for further reading accompany these entries. Appendices include a chronology, diagrams of government organizations, and lists of business and labor groups by founding dates. An unusually extensive index lends itself to the varying research interests of students, teachers, and professionals in maritime and economic history, business-labor-government relations, and military studies.
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De la Pedraja (history, Canisus Coll.) has compiled the first comprehensive reference about the U.S. Merchant Marine and the American shipping industry from the introduction of steamships to today's diesel containerships. To show the impact of politics, economics, and technology on maritime history during the last two centuries, he offers over 500 entries describing people, private companies, business and labor groups, engineering and technological developments, government agencies, terms, key laws, landmark cases, issues, events, and ships of note. Short lists of references for further reading accompany these entries. Appendixes include a chronology, diagrams of government organizations, and lists of business and labor groups by founding dates. An unusually extensive index lends itself to the varying research interests of students, teachers, and professionals in maritime and economic history, business, labor, government relations, and military studies. Highly recommended.
Michael Coleman, Alabama Regional Lib. for Blind & Physically Handicapped, Montgomery
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Michael Coleman, Alabama Regional Lib. for Blind & Physically Handicapped, Montgomery
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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?This work gives exhaustive yet concise treatment of nearly everything related to the U.S. Merchant Marine and shipping since the introduction of steam in 1807. Historians, political scientists, economists, and ship lore enthusiasts will find here a gold mine of information about a fascinating period of American history and those individuals and institutions who contributed to it. The excellent bibliographic essay extends references and citations to additional government publications, legislation, public policies, business and labor issues, and the most recent developments in marine propulsion and technology from the literature of science and commerce. General readers; upper-division undergraduate and above.?-Choice
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This review is from: A Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Merchant Marine and Shipping Industry: Since the Introduction of Steam (Hardcover)
This is truly the definitive reference on the modern merchant marine and serves as the companion volume for the author's prior work "The United States Merchant Shipping Industry during the Twentieth Century: A History (1990)". Every imaginable topic related to this industry is covered in surprising detail. An extremely accurate index, cross referencing within the text and a useful bibliography adds further value to this work. While it is an expensive volume compared to most, for someone with more than just a casual interest in the merchant marine, it's a must for your private library.
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intercoastal service, tuxedo unionism, coastwise companies, generous mail subsidies, runaway flags, tanker unions, ferocious rate war, merchant marine conference, private steamship companies, postwar shipping boom, turboelectric propulsion, new containerships, surplus vessels, foreign trade routes, government cargoes, other maritime unions, intercoastal trade, other steamship companies, steamship executives, coastwise service, general agency agreements, full containerships, ocean mail contracts, steamship sailors, managing operators Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Shipping Board, Maritime Commission, San Francisco, Far East, Government Printing Office, North Atlantic, Puerto Rico, Dollar Line, Grace Line, American Shipper, Panama Canal, Maritime Administration, South America, Coast Guard, Journal of Commerce, New Orleans, Lykes Brothers, Union of the Pacific, Greenwood Press, National Maritime Union, Great Depression, Delta Line, Ward Line New!
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intercoastal service, tuxedo unionism, coastwise companies, generous mail subsidies, runaway flags, tanker unions, ferocious rate war, merchant marine conference, private steamship companies, postwar shipping boom, turboelectric propulsion, new containerships, surplus vessels, foreign trade routes, government cargoes, other maritime unions, intercoastal trade, other steamship companies, steamship executives, coastwise service, general agency agreements, full containerships, ocean mail contracts, steamship sailors, managing operators Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Shipping Board, Maritime Commission, San Francisco, Far East, Government Printing Office, North Atlantic, Puerto Rico, Dollar Line, Grace Line, American Shipper, Panama Canal, Maritime Administration, South America, Coast Guard, Journal of Commerce, New Orleans, Lykes Brothers, Union of the Pacific, Greenwood Press, National Maritime Union, Great Depression, Delta Line, Ward Line New!
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