Maritime Capital: The Shipping Industry in Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914

Maritime Capital: The Shipping Industry in Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914
ISBN-10
0773515208
ISBN-13
9780773515208
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
322
Language
English
Published
1996
Publisher
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Authors
Eric W. Sager, Gerald E. Panting

Description

In this final volume of the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project, Sager and 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. They 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. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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