Ships for the Seven Seas: Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism

(Part of the Studies in Industry and Society Series)

by Thomas Heinrich

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Thomas 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 Award

Originally 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:142143685X

ISBN13:9781421436852

Release Date:March 2020

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:308 Pages

Weight:1.19 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"

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