{"product_id":"ships-for-the-seven-seas-9781421436852","title":"Ships for the Seven Seas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas R. Heinrich explores American shipbuilding from the workshop level to subcontracting networks spanning the Delaware Valley.   Winner of the North American Society for Oceanic History's John Lyman Book AwardOriginally published in 1996. Sustained by a skilled work force and the Pennsylvania iron and steel industry, Philadelphia shipbuilders negotiated the transition from wooden to iron hull construction earlier and far more easily that most other builders. Between the Civil War and World War I, Philadelphia emerged as the vital center of American shipbuilding, constructing a wide variety of vessel types such as passenger liners, freighters, battleships, and cruisers.   In Ships for the Seven Seas, Thomas R. Heinrich explores this complex industry from the workshop level to subcontracting networks spanning the Delaware Valley. He describes entrepreneurial strategies and industrial change that facilitated the rise of major shipbuilding firms; how naval architecture, marine engineer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeinrich has written a detailed, compelling account of iron and steel shipbuilding . . . This is a finely crafted book on a fascinating period when technical transformations, political compromises, broad economic changes, and world power aspirations reconfigured American shipbuilding . . . Well-designed and nicely illustrated.\u003cbr\u003e—John K. Brown, \u003ci\u003eH-Business\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA comprehensive study of Philadelphia shipbuilding in its entire historical, economic, and entrepreneurial context.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLloyd's List\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA lucid and instructive study.\u003cbr\u003e—Robin Craig, \u003ci\u003eMariner's Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: \"Ship Building as Much as Possible Advanced\": The Rise and Decline of Wooden Shipbuilding, 1640-1870\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: \"A Small Margin\": Ironclads and the Transition from Wooden to Iron Shipbuilding\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: The American Clyde: Corporate and Proprietary Capitalism in the Philadelphia Maritime Economy, 1865-1875\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Workshop of the World: Commerce, Crafts, and Class Conflict, 1875-1885\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: A Vicious Quality: Cramp and the Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex, 1885-1898\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: New Departure: Growth and Crisis, 1898-1914\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: This Machine of War: World War I\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: What Next? The Postwar Depression, 1919-1929\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eEssay on Sources\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408136872279,"sku":"9781421436852","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421436852.jpg?v=1730501720","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ships-for-the-seven-seas-9781421436852","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}