A Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Merchant Marine and Shipping Industry

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.