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作       者:Stephen Fox

出  版  社:Harper Perennial

出版时间:2011-04-14

字       数:163.0万

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An epic social history of steamship travel from the 19th-century to the ‘Lusitania’, the ‘Mauretania’ and the ‘Titanic’. The great transatlantic steamships became emblems of an age, of a Victorian audacity of spirit-cathedrals to man's harnessing of new technology. Through the innovations and designs of key engineers and shipping magnates – Samuel Cunard, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Edward Knights Collins – ‘the largest movable objects in human history' were created. To the wealthy, steamships represented glamorous travel, but to most they offered cheap passage out of Europe to the New World. At their peak, steamships delivered one million new Americans each year, transforming the world’s oceans from barriers into highways. In this fascinating history, Stephen Fox chronicles the tragedies that marked the evolution of the ocean liner, including the 1852 sinking of the ‘Arctic’, with the loss of three hundred and twenty-two lives, and the early 20th-century losses of the ‘Lusitania’ and the ‘Titanic’. Using contemporary records, diaries and writing, he penetrates the experience of transatlantic passage and examines the societies created on the vast floating cities, ‘a kind of third human environment, neither land nor sea but partaking of each, and bridging them in unprecedented ways’.
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The Ocean Railway

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Samuel Cunard, and the revolutionary world of the great Atlantic steamships

Stephen Fox

Table of Contents

Prologue The North Atlantic Ocean and the Britannia

PART ONE: The Packet Ship Era, 1820-1840

1. The Sailing Packets

2. Steam on Water

PART TWO: The Era of Cunard Domination, 1840-1870

3. Ships as Enterprise: Samuel Cunard of Halifax

4. Ships as Engineering: Isambard Kingdom Brunel

5. The Cunard Line

6. The Collins Line

7. Distinguished Failures

8. Emigration and the Inman Line

9. Life on a Steamer

PART THREE: The Era of Steamship Competition, 1870-1910

10. The White Star Line

11. Competition and Invention

12. Ships as Buildings: Two Cycles to Cunard

13. Ships as Towns: Officers, Crew, Steerage

14. Anglo-Americans

15. Germans

16. The Two Finest Cunarders

Notes

MANUSCRIPT MATERIALS

ABBREVIATIONS OF SOURCES

PROLOGUE: THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN AND THE BRITANNIA

1: THE SAILING PACKETS

2: STEAM ON WATER

3: SHIPS AS ENTERPRISE: SAMUEL CUNARD OF HALIFAX

4: SHIPS AS ENGINEERING: ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL

5: THE CUNARD LINE

6: THE COLLINS LINE

7: DISTINGUISHED FAILURES

8: EMIGRATION AND THE INMAN LINE

9: LIFE ON A STEAMER

10: THE WHITE STAR LINE

11: COMPETITION AND INVENTION

12: SHIPS AS BUILDINGS: TWO CYCLES TO CUNARD

13: SHIPS AS TOWNS: OFFICERS, CREW, STEERAGE

14: ANGLO-AMERICANS

15: GERMANS

16: THE TWO FINEST CUNARDERS

Index

Acknowledgments

About the Author

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P.S.

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Q&A

Life at a Glance

Top Ten Favourite Books

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A Critical Eye

The Routes of History

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