Ships for the Seven Seas: Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism 9781421436852

Варианты приобретения

Цена: 68430.00T
Кол-во:
Наличие: Поставка под заказ. Есть в наличии на складе поставщика.
Склад Америка: 179 шт.
При оформлении заказа до: 2025-07-23
Ориентировочная дата поставки: конец Сентября - начало Октября
При условии наличия книги у поставщика.

Добавить в корзину

в Мои желания

Автор: Heinrich Thomas
Название: Ships for the Seven Seas: Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism
ISBN: 9781421436852
Издательство: Johns Hopkins University Press
Классификация:

История Америк

Судостроение

ISBN-10: 142143685X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 308
Вес: 0.54 кг.
Дата издания: 24.03.2020
Серия: Studies in industry and society
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 39 illustrations, black and white
Размер: 25.40 x 17.78 x 1.65 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Philadelphia shipbuilding in the age of industrial capitalism
Рейтинг:
Поставляется из: США
Описание:

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 Historys 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 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 engineering, and craft skills evolved as iron and steel overtook 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. Heinrich also examines the formation of the military-industrial complex in the context of naval contracting.

Contributing to current debates in business history, Ships for the Seven Seas explains how proprietary ownership and batch production strategies enabled late nineteenth-century builders to supply volatile markets with custom-built steamships. But large-scale naval construction in the 1920s eroded production flexibility, Heinrich 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 Philadelphia shipyards.

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