Ships for the Seven Seas: Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism by Thomas Heinrich

Ships for the Seven Seas: Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism

Thomas Heinrich

308 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

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Originally published in 1996. Sustained by a skilled work force and the Pennsylvania iron and steel industry, Philadelphia shipbuilders negotiated the transition from wooden to iron hull construction earlier and far more easily that most other bui...

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