Ships for the Seven Seas : Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism / / Thomas R. Heinrich

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910524702603321
• Autore: Heinrich Thomas R
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource (x, 290 pages) :) : illustrations
• Collana: Studies in industry and society ; ; 12
• Disciplina: 338.4/762382/0974811
• Soggetti: Shipbuilding industry; Shipbuilding industry - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History; History; Electronic books.; Philadelphia (Pa.); Philadelphia, Pa; Pennsylvania Philadelphia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: 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
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-268) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.