Steam Titans by William M Fowler Jr

Steam Titans by William M Fowler Jr

Winner of the Brewington Book Prize for Maritime History

The story of the epic contest between shipping magnates Samuel Cunard and Edward Collins for mid-19th century control of the Atlantic.

Between 1815 and the American Civil War, the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution delivered a sea change in oceanic transportation. Steam travel transformed the Atlantic into a pulsating highway, dominated by ports in Liverpool and New York, as steamships ferried people, supplies, money, and information with astounding speed and regularity. American raw materials flowed eastward, while goods, capital, people, and technology crossed westward. The Anglo-American partnership fueled development worldwide; it also gave rise to a particularly intense competition.

Steam Titans tells the story of a transatlantic fight to wrest control of the globe's most lucrative trade route. Two men--Samuel Cunard and Edward Knight Collins--and two nations wielded the tools of technology, finance, and politics to compete for control of a commercial lifeline that spanned the North Atlantic. The world watched carefully to see which would win. Each competitor sent to sea the fastest, biggest, and most elegant ships in the world, hoping to earn the distinction of being known as the only way to cross.

Historian William M. Fowler 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 a competition that was the opening act in the drama of economic globalization, still unfolding today.

Fowler is a Distinguished Professor of History at Boston's Northeastern University, and he has given talks at the Smithsonian Institution, the United States Naval War College, and the Maritime Education Association. Fowler is an honorary member of the Boston Maritime Society and an editor of The New England Quarterly. He is a trustee of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Association, The Paul Revere Memorial Association, and The Rhode Island Historical Society. He resides in the Massachusetts town of Winchester.

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ISBN 13	9781620409084
ISBN 10	1620409089
Title	Steam Titans
Author	William M Fowler Jr
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Year published	2017-10-19
Number of pages	368
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