A Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Merchant Marine and Shipping Industry - Since the Introduction of Steam

A foremost authority has written the first comprehensive reference about the U.S. Merchant Marine and American shipping from the introduction of steamships to today's diesel containerships--showing the impact of politics, economics, and technology on maritime history during the last two centuries. Over 500 entries describe people, private companies, business and labor groups, engineering and technological developments, government agencies, terms, key laws, landmark cases, issues, events, and ships of note. Short lists of references for further reading accompany these entries. Appendices include a chronology, diagrams of government organizations, and lists of business and labor groups by founding dates. An unusually extensive index lends itself to the varying research interests of students, teachers, and professionals in maritime and economic history, business-labor-government relations, and military studies.

List of contents

Preface
The Dictionary
Appendix A: Chronology of Selected Events
Appendix B: Diagrams of Government Agencies
Appendix C: Labor Unions and Business Groups (by date of founding)
Index

About the author

RENÉ DE LA PEDRAJA is Professor of History at Canisius College and the author of A Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Merchant Marine and Shipping Industry (Greenwood, 1994) and, most recently, Oil and Coffee: Latin American Merchant Shipping from the Imperial Era to the 1950s (Greenwood, 1998). He is currently doing research on the military history of Latin America.

Product details

• Authors: Rene De La Pedraja, Rene De La Pedraja
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.08.1994
• EAN: 9780313272257
• ISBN: 978-0-313-27225-7
• No. of pages: 768
• Weight: 1219 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; USA, 20th Century, REFERENCE / Yearbooks & Annuals, military history, REFERENCE / Almanacs, HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Transportation, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, maritime history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, Transport industries, Yearbooks, annuals, almanacs, C 1700 To C 1800, Shipping industries