Maritime Capital: The Shipping Industry in Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914
- ISBN-10
- 0773507647
- ISBN-13
- 9780773507647
- Category
- Transportation
- Pages
- 289
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990-11-01
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
- Authors
- Eric W. Sager, Gerald E. Panting
Description
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.
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Other editions
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- 1996
- 322 pages
- Paperback
- McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
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