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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
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