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This page points to works on the shipbuilding industry
and specific shipbuilders. It supplements discussion
of the law of the sea and maritime activity as a metaphor
for the internet.
It covers -
introduction
Given the significance of shipbuilding as a technological
achievement, embodiment of national pride and driver of
economic performance pre-1930 the absence of major synoptic
international histories of the industry is striking.
Bo Strath's The Politics of De-industrialisation:
The Contraction of the West European Shipbuilding Industry
(Beckenham: Croom Helm 1987) and Navies and
Shipbuilding Industries: The Strained Symbiosis (Westport:
Praeger 1996) by Daniel Todd offer insights about recent
developments.
For the shipping container and contemporary logistics
see Marc Levinson's elegant The Box (Princeton:
Princeton Uni Press 2006), Brian Cudahy's Box Boats:
How Container Shipping Changed the World (New York:
Fordham Uni Press 2006) and Frank Broeze's The Globalization
of the Oceans (St John's: International Maritime
Economic History Association 2002).
UK
For the UK some highlights are Anthony Burton's concise
The Rise & Fall of British Shipbuilding (London:
Constable 1994), Gordon Boyce's Information, Mediation
and Institutional Development: The Rise of Large-scale
Enterprise in British Shipping, 1879-1914 (Manchester:
Manchester Uni Press 1995), Edward Lorenz' persuasive
Economic Decline in Britain: The Shipbuilding Industry
1890-1970 (Oxford: Claredon Press 1991), Sidney Pollard
& Paul Robertson's The British Shipbuilding Industry,
1870-1914 (Cambridge: Harvard Uni Press 1979), British
Shipbuilding and the State since 1918: A Political Economy
of Decline (Exeter: Uni of Exeter Press 2002) by
Lewis Johnman & Hugh Murphy and Ebb Tide in the
British Maritime Industries: Change and adaptation 1918-1990
(Exeter: Uni of Exeter Press 2003) by Alan Jamieson.
For naval development see Building the Steam Navy:
Dockyards, Technology and the Creation of the Victorian
Battle Fleet, 1830-1906 (London: Conway 2004) by
David Evans and Larrie Ferreiro's Ships and Science:
The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution,
1600-1800 (Cambridge: MIT Press 20070.
An oral history of Clydeside is provided in Down The
River (Glendaruel: Argyll Publishing 2001) edited
by Lewis Johnman & Ian Johnston
USA
For the US works include Thomas Heinrich's Ships for
the Seven Seas: Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of
Industrial Capitalism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Uni
Press 1997) and Industrializing American Shipbuilding:
The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820-1920
(Miami: Uni Press of Florida 2006) by William Thiesen.
For the defence sector see Jacob Goodwin's Brotherhood
of Arms: General Dynamics and the Business of Defending
America (New York: Times Books 1985), Gary Weir's
Forged in War: The Naval-Industrial Complex and American
Submarine Construction, 1940-1961 (Washington: Naval
Historical Center 1993) and Anglo-American Shipbuilding
in World War II: A Geographical Perspective (Westport:
Greenwood 2004) by Michael Lindberg & Daniel Todd.
Germany
Salient works regarding German industry and aspirations
include Building the Kaiser's Navy: The Imperial Navy
Office and German Industry in the Tirpitz Era, 1890-1919
(Naval Institute Press 1992) by Gary Weir, the feisty
Battleship building and party politics in Germany,
1894-1901: A cross-section of the political, social and
ideological preconditions of German imperialism (Chicago:
Uni of Chicago Press 1973) by Eckart Kehr and Recovery
and Restoration: US Foreign Policy and the Politics of
Reconstruction of West Germany’s Shipbuilding Industry,
1945-1955 (Westport: Greenwood 2001) by Henry
Wend.
Japan
For Japan see Tomohei Chida & Peter Davies' The
Japanese Shipping & Shipbuilding Industries: A History
of Their Modern Growth (London: Athlone Press 1990).
Shipbuilders
Individual
firms and yards have attracted considerable, albeit uneven,
attention. Works of note for the UK include Ships
for a nation, 1847-1971 - John Brown & Company, Clydebank
(Glendaruel: Argyll Publishing 2001) by Ian Johnstone,
Arms and the State: Sir William Armstrong and the
Remaking of British Naval Power, 1854-1914
(Aldershot: Ashgate 2004) by Michael Bastable, Iron
Shipbuilding on the Thames, 1832-1915: An Economic and
Business History (Aldershot: Ashgate 2000) by AJ
Arnold
For Beardmore, rival of Vickers-Armstrong, see John Hume
& Michael Moss' Beardmore: The History of a Scottish
Industrial Giant (London: Heinemann 1979). Kenneth
Warren's Steel, Ships and Men: Cammell Laird, 1824-1993
(Liverpool: Liverpool Uni Press 1998) is a serviceable
account of Cammell. For Harland & Wolff see Shipbuilders
to the World: 125 Years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast
1861-1986 (Belfast: Blackstaff 1986) by Michael Moss
& John Hume.
Across the Atlantic see Jerry Strahan's celebratory Andrew
Jackson Higgins and the Boats that Won World War II
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Uni Press 1994) and The
Philadelphia Navy Yard: From the Birth of the U.S. Navy
to the Nuclear Age (Philadelphia: Uni of Pennsylvania
Press 2001) by Jeffery Dorwart & Jean Wolf.
In Japan see Yukiko Fukasaku's Technology and Industrial
Development in Pre-War Japan: Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard,
1884-1934 (New York: Routledge 1992).
shipbreaking
Resources on shipbreaking include -
- End
of the Line - photo essay (Foreign Policy,
2006) | here
- Shipbreaking
- photo essay (Rune Larsen) | here
- The
Shipbreakers - Pulitzer Prize (Baltimore Sun,
1998) | here
- Ship
Breaking (Greenpeace) | here
- Is
There A Decent Way to Break Up Ships (Paul Bailey,
ILO 2000) | here
- Ship
Disposal (US Maritime Administration, 2007) | here
Other
literature on offshoring ship breaking and other pollution
is highlighted here.
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