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Voyages, the age of engines : documents in American maritime history. Volume II, 1865-present /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: National Maritime Historical Society (U.S.)
Other Authors: Smith, Joshua M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2009]
Series:New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology.
Subjects:
Navigation > United States > History > Sources.
United States > History, Naval > Sources.
Voyages and travels > History > Sources.
Merchant marine > United States > History > Sources.
Navigation > États-Unis > Histoire > Sources.
États-Unis > Histoire navale > Sources.
Voyages > Histoire > Sources.
Merchant marine.
Navigation.
Voyages and travels.
United States.
Sources.
History.
Naval history.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Inland navigation
  • Free ships and protectionism
  • West coast racial concerns
  • Maritime disaster and rescue
  • Fishing woes and worries
  • Maritime labor conditions
  • Navalism and empire
  • Progressives at sea
  • The great war
  • Sea and sand
  • Merchant marine policy
  • Interwar issues of race and labor
  • Sea stories
  • War on the horizon
  • Two-ocean war
  • Postwar merchant marine
  • The navy's Cold War
  • Sea change in society
  • Tailhook and beyond
  • The sea around us
  • Ocean liners to cruise ships
  • Maritime environmentalism in the 1990s
  • The war on terror.