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Bezig met laden... Steam Titans: Cunard, Collins, and the Epic Battle for Commerce on the North Atlantic (2017)door William M. Fowler Jr.
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. As the title promises, the author gives you a blow by blow accounting of how the American Collins Line and the British Cunard Line came to be, how they became competitors for the high-end market of North Atlantic commerce, and how Cunard endured, whereas Collins was reduced to an antiquarian footnote. What was news to me is that so intense were the costs of this traffic, that the two business organizations wound up being under-the-table collaborators to bolster their interests, a relationship that was not uncovered until 1975; had this come out in the 1850s heads would have rolled. ( ) A well written history that will appeal to a very narrow audience (history buffs with particular interest in navel affairs). The book centers on the competition between the Cunard steamboats based in England and the Collins boats quartered in the United States. They are competing for the lucrative market transporting people, mail and goods between Europe and America. A tremendous amount of research and detail went into this book. I liked it but I teach history at a junior college. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"'Steam Titan' tells the story of a transatlantic fight born of and powered by steam, a fight to wrest control of the globe's most lucrative trade route. It's the story of two men: Samuel Cunard and Edward Knight Collins, and two nations: Great Britain and the United States. Wielding the tools of technology, finance, and politics--and at the same time coping with the inevitable, sometimes crushing, perils of the sea--these opposing forces fought to capture control of a commercial lifeline that spanned the North Atlantic. Tracing the paths of ships, goods, people, information and money, historian William M. Fowler Jr. brings to life the spectacle of this generation-long struggle for supremacy, during which New York rose to take her place among the greatest ports and cities of the world, and recounts the tale of competition that was the opening act in the drama of economic globalization that is still unfolding today."--Jacket. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)387.5Social sciences Commerce, Communications, Transportation Rivers, Oceans, and Flight Maritime HistoryLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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