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Ships for the Seven Seas

Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism

Thomas Heinrich (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

308 Seiten

1997
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-5387-6 (ISBN)

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Between the Civil War and World War I, Philadelphia emerged as the vital centre of American shipbuilding. This work explores this complex industry, from the workshop level to subcontracting networks spanning the Delaware valley. It describes entrepreneurial strategies and industrial change that facilitated the rise of the major shipbuilding firms; how naval architecture, marine engineering, and craft skills evolved as iron and steel took over wood as the basic construction material; and how changes in domestic and international trade and the rise of the American steel navy helped generate vessel contracts for local builders. The book also examines the military-industrial complex in the context of naval contracting. Contributing to the current debates in business history, this text explains how proprietary ownership and batch production strategies enabled late 19th-century builders to supply volatile markets with custom-built ships.
But large-scale naval construction in the 1920s eroded production flexibility, the author argues, and since then, ill-conceived merchant marine policies and naval contracting procedures have brought about a structural crisis in American shipbuilding and the demise of the venerable Philadephia shipyards.

Thomas R. Heinrich is senior historian at the History Factory in Washington, D.C.

Acknowledgements
Prologue
Chapter 1: "Ship Building as Much as Possible Advanced": The Rise and Decline of Wooden Shipbuilding, 1640-1870
Chapter 2: "A Small Margin": Ironclads and the Transition from Wooden to Iron Shipbuilding
Chapter 3: The American Clyde: Corporate and Proprietary Capitalism in the Philadelphia Maritime Economy, 1865-1875
Chapter 4: Workshop of the World: Commerce, Crafts, and Class Conflict, 1875-1885
Chapter 5: A Vicious Quality: Cramp and the Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex, 1885-1898
Chapter 6: New Departure: Growth and Crisis, 1898-1914
Chapter 7: This Machine of War: World War I
Chapter 8: What Next? The Postwar Depression, 1919-1929
Epilogue
Abbreviations
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.6.1997
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Industry and Society
Zusatzinfo	39 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	794 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
Themenwelt	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
ISBN-10	0-8018-5387-7 / 0801853877
ISBN-13	978-0-8018-5387-6 / 9780801853876
Zustand	Neuware