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Author Sager, Eric W., 1946-

Title Maritime capital : the shipping industry in Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914 / Eric W. Sager with Gerald E. Panting
Published Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1990

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 289 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Contents Contents -- Illustrative Material -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Sailing Ships and Regional History -- 2 Rise of an Enclave Industry -- 3 Colonial Argosy -- 4 Maritime Merchants in the Old Colonial System -- 5 Rise and Decline of the Ocean Fleets -- 6 Capital, Labour, and Profits -- 7 Merchant Shipowners in the Industrial Era -- 8 A Culture of EntrepÃ?t Growth -- 9 Maritime Capital and Economic Development -- 10 Postscript: A Comparative Perspective -- Appendix A: Sample Gross Revenue Calculations, 1863, 1873 -- Appendix B: Average Gross Revenue, Selected Commodities
Appendix C: Returns on Six Nova Scotia Vessels, 1867�92Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Shipbuilding industry -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 19th century
Shipping -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 19th century
Shipping -- Atlantic Provinces -- History -- 19th century
Shipbuilding industry -- Atlantic Provinces -- History -- 19th century
Shipping -- Maritime Provinces -- History -- 19th century
Shipbuilding industry -- Maritime Provinces -- History -- 19th century
TRANSPORTATION -- Ships & Shipbuilding -- Pictorial.
TRANSPORTATION -- Ships & Shipbuilding -- General.
Economic history
Shipbuilding industry
Shipping
Schiffbau
Scheepsbouw.
Rederijen.
SUBJECT Newfoundland and Labrador -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
Atlantic Provinces -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
Subject Maritime Provinces
Canada -- Atlantic Provinces
Newfoundland and Labrador
Kanada
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773562516
0773562516