Shipbuilding in colonial America
1976
623.8203 G618 1976
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Title
Shipbuilding in colonial America
Published
Charlottesville : Published for the Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia, by the University Press of Virginia, 1976.
Description
xiii, 306 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
623.8203 G618 1976
System Control No.
(OCoLC)01137977
Note
Maps on lining papers.
This general survey of shipbuilding in colonial America is based extensively on original research of merchant papers, legislative and judicial records, shipping registers, and insurance lists from the period. Familiar with both maritime and traditional colonial history, the author presents a balanced picture of the growth of the industry, encompassing social, labor, political, maritime, and economic history.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-299) and index.
Contents: Ships and shipbuilding in the first colonial settlements -- Shipbuilding patterns in seventeenth-century America -- The early eighteenth-century expansion of colonial shipbuilding -- Colonial shipwrights -- Ship construction in eighteenth-century America -- The markets for Colonial-built vessels -- Colonial warships -- The development of shipbuilding in the South -- Shipping tables.
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This general survey of shipbuilding in colonial America is based extensively on original research of merchant papers, legislative and judicial records, shipping registers, and insurance lists from the period. Familiar with both maritime and traditional colonial history, the author presents a balanced picture of the growth of the industry, encompassing social, labor, political, maritime, and economic history.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-299) and index.
Contents: Ships and shipbuilding in the first colonial settlements -- Shipbuilding patterns in seventeenth-century America -- The early eighteenth-century expansion of colonial shipbuilding -- Colonial shipwrights -- Ship construction in eighteenth-century America -- The markets for Colonial-built vessels -- Colonial warships -- The development of shipbuilding in the South -- Shipping tables.
77.1.145
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