Our merchant marine; how it rose, increased, became great, declined and decayed, with an inquiry into the conditions essential to its resuscitation and future prosperity.
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New York,
G.P. Putnam's Sons,
1882.
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| Series: | Questions of the day ;
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Table of Contents:
- The period of development and prosperity
- The period of decadence
- The causes of the decadence of the American Merchant Marine
- Our navigation laws, and how they originated
- The provisions of our navigation laws
- How and why Great Britain repealed her navigation law and the results of the repeal
- The discussion on remedies
- Objections to the repeal of our navigation laws stated and considered
- Obstacles in the way of the restoration of the Merchant marine of the United States, other than our navigation laws
- The fundamental cause of the decay, and the present main obstacle in the way of the resuscitation of the Merchant Marine of the United States
- Conclusion.