Change and Adaptation in Maritime History

The North Atlantic Fleets in the Nineteenth Century

Bibliographic Data

ID5517064
AuthorsValerie Burton (corresponding author), V C Burton, Lewis R Fischer, Gerald E Panting
Year1986
Volume39
Issue3
Pages494
Publication date1986-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Economic History Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0117 • E-ISSN: 1468-0289
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2596383
OpenAlexW2068141601
LanguageEN
Citations received8

This is the sixth and final volume of papers stemming from the annual workshops of the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project. Having examined such diverse topics as shipping entrepreneurs, maritime labor, the regional context, and world trades in previous volumes, this collection is concerned with trying to understand the forces which influenced the major fleets plying the North Atlantic in the last half of the nineteenth century. Participants were requested to focus on the ways in which entrepreneurs and governments reacted toward North Atlantic Shipping in an age of unprecedented growth and change. In addition, the workshop attempted to examine the various ways in which nations succeeded or failed in making the transition from sail to steam

Adaptation (eye · Ancient history · Archaeology · Atlantic World · Geography · Maritime history · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Psychology

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