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PublisherMcGill-Queen's University Press

ISBN-100773507647

ISBN-139780773507647

eBay Product ID (ePID)1358470

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Number of Pages320 Pages

Publication NameMaritime Capital : the Shipping Industry in Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914

LanguageEnglish

SubjectGeneral, Ships & Shipbuilding / General

Publication Year1990

TypeTextbook

AuthorEric W. Sager, Gerald E. Panting

Subject AreaTransportation, History

FormatHardcover

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Item Weight23.1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN91-153816

Reviews"contributes in a particularly significant way to the question of why Atlantic Canada's transition to industrial capitalism in the last half of the nineteenth century was incomplete ... [It] deserves a wide audience. I am sure it will get it." Colin Howell, Department of History, St Mary's University. "will become, in my opinion, the bench-mark against which all future studies of nineteenth-century Canadian shipping and shipbuilding will have to be measured." T.W. Acheson, Department of History, University of New Brunswick.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal387.5/1

SynopsisSager and Panting describe in detail the growth of the shipping industry and the economic context in which the shipping merchants operated. Shipowning and shipbuilding were a central part of the mercantile economy of the Atlantic colonies of British North America. But, following a slow and incomplete transition in the region from commercial to industrial capitalism, the shipping industry collapsed: by 1900 the local fleets were a third of their size a mere two decades earlier. The shipowners of the region, Sager and Panting argue, were merchants first: they shifted their investments to landward enterprises because they believed Confederation offered new and better possibilities for commercial exchange. Canadian capital and the Canadian state acted together to build transcontinental railways but gave little support for a Canadian merchant navy. Maritimers became Canadians and turned away from their seaward past, thereby relinquishing control and management of the industrial economy that followed the age of wood, wind, and sail. Drawing upon both the data base of the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project and important secondary sources, Sager and Panting show that the merchant class, in failing to maintain a merchant marine built and owned in their region, contributed in no small way to the Maritimes' present state of underdevelopment., In Maritime Capital, the long-awaited final volume of the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project, Eric Sager and Gerald Panting argue that the decline of the shipping industry was not, as has commonly been assumed, the inevitable result of the conversion from wood and sail to iron and steam.

LC Classification NumberHE770.S23 1990