Maritime Enterprise in the New Republic

Investment in Baltimore Shipping, 1789–1793

Bibliographic Data

ID9629247
AuthorsGeoffrey Gilbert (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, corresponding author)
Year1984
Volume58
Issue1
Pages14-29
Publication date1984-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Business History Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-6805 • E-ISSN: 2044-768X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3114526
OpenAlexW2126299848
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited10

By systematically analyzing ship registry documents it is possible to illuminate shipholding practices at major American ports in the early national era. In this article, Professor Gilbert focuses on shipholding in Baltimore in the period just prior to the late eighteenth century European war-induced shipping boom. He finds the port's foreign trade to be largely controlled by Baltimore residents. Merchants owned by far the largest percentage of the shipping, while mariners constituted an important, albeit secondary, investor group. Sole ownership of vessels was more extensive in Federalist Baltimore than in colonial Boston or Philadelphia. More detailed comparisons of shipowning practices among the major United States ports, Gilbert concludes, await further research

Boom · Colonial period · Colonialism · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Federalist · Investment (military · Political science · Politics · Port (circuit theory · American Environmental and Regional History · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Engineering · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law

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