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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wells, David A. (David Ames), 1828-1898 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1882.
Series:Questions of the day ; 3.
Subjects:
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  • How and why Great Britain repealed her navigation law and the results of the repeal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.