The Philadelphia Navy Yard
From the Birth of the U.S. Navy to the Nuclear Age (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14529486 |
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| Authors | William M Mcbride (0000-0002-9204-6131, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 810-812 |
| Publication date | 2001-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2001.0176 |
| OpenAlex | W2041838843 |
| Language | EN |
After two hundred years of operation, the naval shipyard at Philadelphia closed in 1996. A significant Philadelphia institution, the yard's importance to the U.S. Navy ebbed and flowed over the years, and its survival, in a continuation of the history of its establishment, often relied more on political [End Page 810] and personal alliances than on naval utility. The history Jeffery Dorwart conveys in this well-researched and extensively illustrated account is not why the navy yard was closed but "why it had taken so long to do so" (p. 4). Though located a hundred miles from the Atlantic Ocean, up the Delaware River, the Philadelphia yard did have a continual selling point: the surrounding industrial infrastructure and the supply of skilled laborers in the Delaware Valley
Aeronautics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Navy · Political science · Politics · Port (circuit theory) · Shipbuilding · Shipyard · Shore · Tonnage · Yard · American Environmental and Regional History · Engineering · History · Law · Military and Defense Studies · Oceanography · Space exploration and regulation
| Highly cited | No |
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