Shipbuilding in colonial America / Joseph A. Goldenberg.
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.
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- ISBN: 0813905885
- ISBN: 9780813905884
- Physical Description: xiii, 306 pages ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Charlottesville : Published for the Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia, by the University Press of Virginia, 1976.
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| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-299) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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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| Subject: | Shipbuilding > United States > History. United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. |
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