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020 $a9781620409084 (hbk.) :$cNT$1050
082 04$a387.24$222
100 1 $aFowler, William M.,$d1944-.
245 10$aSteam titans :$bCunard, Collins, and the epic battle for commerce on the North Atlantic /$cWilliam M. Fowler Jr.
246 30$aCunard, Collins, and the epic battle for commerce on the North Atlantic.
260 $aNew York :$bBloomsbury,$c2017.
300 $a358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color), portraits ;$c24 cm.
505 0 $a" 'Steam Titan' tells the story of a transatlantic fight born of and powered by steam, a fight to wrest control of the globe's most lucrative trade route. It's the story of two men: Samuel Cunard and Edward Knight Collins, and two nations: Great Britain and the United States. Wielding the tools of technology, finance, and politics--and at the same time coping with the inevitable, sometimes crushing, perils of the sea--these opposing forces fought to capture control ofa commercial lifeline that spanned the North Atlantic. Tracing the paths of ships, goods, people, information and money, historian William M. Fowler Jr. brings to life the spectacle of this generation-long struggle for supremacy,during which New York rose to take her place among the greatest ports and cities of the world, and recounts the tale of competition that was the opening act in the drama of economic globalization that is still unfolding today."--Jacket
600 10$aCollins, Edward Knight,$d1802-1878.
600 10$aCunard, Samuel, Sir,$d1787-1865.
650 0$aCollins Line.
650 0$aCunard Steamship Company, ltd.
650 0$aSteamboat lines$vNorth Atlantic Ocean$vHistory$y19th century.
650 0$aUnited States$vCommerce$y19th century.