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Steam Titans: Cunard, Collins, and the Epic Battle for Commerce on the North Atlantic

Autor William M. Fowler Jr.
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 oct 2017
Winner of the Brewington Book Prize for Maritime HistoryThe story of the epic contest between shipping magnates Samuel Cunard and Edward Collins for mid-19th century control of the Atlantic.Between 1815 and the American Civil War, the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution delivered a sea change in oceanic transportation. Steam travel transformed the Atlantic into a pulsating highway, dominated by ports in Liverpool and New York, as steamships ferried people, supplies, money, and information with astounding speed and regularity. American raw materials flowed eastward, while goods, capital, people, and technology crossed westward. The Anglo-American "partnership" fueled development worldwide; it also gave rise to a particularly intense competition.Steam Titanstells the story of a transatlantic fight to wrest control of the globe's most lucrative trade route. Two men--Samuel Cunard and Edward Knight Collins--and two nations wielded the tools of technology, finance, and politics to compete for control of a commercial lifeline that spanned the North Atlantic. The world watched carefully to see which would win. Each competitor sent to sea the fastest, biggest, and most elegant ships in the world, hoping to earn the distinction of being known as "the only way to cross." Historian William M. Fowler brings to life the spectacle of this generation-long struggle for supremacy, during which New York rose to take her place among the greatest ports and cities of the world, and recounts the tale of a competition that was the opening act in the drama of economic globalization, still unfolding today.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781620409084
ISBN-10: 1620409089
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: 1 x 16 page colour plate section
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

An Epic Rivalry:The battle for control of trade routes across the Atlantic is one of many important moments in the history of the relationship between the US and England.

Notă biografică

William M. Fowleris Distinguished Professor of History at Northeastern University in Boston and has lectured at the Smithsonian Institution, the United States Naval War College, and the Sea Education Association. A trustee of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Association, The Paul Revere Memorial Association, and The Rhode Island Historical Society, Fowler is an honorary member of the Boston Marine Society, as well as an editor ofThe New England Quarterly. He lives in Winchester, Massachusetts.

Recenzii

A vigorous account of the rivalry . . .With STEAM TITANS, Mr. Fowler has crafted an enjoyable book, with enough technical detail and colorful tales to appeal to the casual weekend sailor and skilled mariner alike.
[A] grand-scale chronicle of an era at sea like no other, written by a master maritime scholar, and with appropriate vitality. High ambition, ingenuity, the advance of technology, money, good luck and bad, and courage aplenty all play their parts here. [A] most refreshing reminder of how much more there is to history besides politics and war.
[A] fascinating, informative account of the rivalry that pushed the efficiency of ocean transportation to new heights in the mid-nineteenth century. The narrative has all the thrust and drive of one of the steam ships William Fowler so vividly evokes. His account of the wreck of theArcticis just one of the many set pieces that makes this book both a pleasure and a surprise.
A powerful, sometimes cautionary, tale of a great transatlantic maritime rivalry, well-told from both human and commercial viewpoints.
Fowler takes us back to the shipping industry of Britain and the freshly declared independent American colonies to illustrate the formation and growth of trade routes and commodities, maritime law, and the U.S. merchant marine, as well as the often-prickly relationship between national politics and commercial interests
Skillfully-written and well researched . . . It describes fascinating details without becoming too technical.
Well researched and finely articulated, STEAM TITANS is an absorbing account of a decade-long struggle.
STEAM TITANS is a must read. Superbly written!