Author: Heinrich, Thomas R.
Title: Ships for the Seven Seas : Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism
Description: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ.Press, 1997. orig.cloth. 25x18cm, x,290pp, Series: Studies in Industry and Society, 12.. Textual maps.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: "Ship-Building 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 Shipbuiding; The American Clyde: Corporate and Proprietary Capitalism in the Philadelphia Maritime Economy, 1865-1875; Workshop of the World: Commerce, Crafts, and Class Conflict,1885-1989; New Departure: Growth and Crisis,1898-1914; This Machine of War: World War I; What Next? The Postwar Depression,1919-1929; Epilogue.

Keywords: American Shipbuilding, Industrial History, United States, Philadelphia, Ships Industry, Economy Economic, Economics, ,