 | Maritime Capital: The Shipping Industry in Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914 Subjects: Shipbuilding industry -- Maritime Provinces -- History -- 19th century; Shipping -- Maritime Provinces -- History -- 19th century; Maritime Provinces -- Economic conditions -- To 1867; Maritime Provinces -- Economic conditions -- 1867—1918; In Maritime Capital, the long-awaited final volume of the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project, Eric Sager and Gerald Panting argue that the decline of the shipping industry was not, as has commonly been assumed, the inevitable result of the conversion from wood and sail to iron and steam. Sager Eric W. : Eric W. Sager is professor emeritus of history at the University of Victoria. |
