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The first scholarly monograph on the history of the P & O shipping company, which many would argue was the truly central and iconic shipping line of empire. It is also the first history of P & O to pay due attention to the political context - the politics of the British Empire -…
"Flagships of imperialism is the first scholarly monograph on the history of the P&O shipping company and the first history of P&O to pay due attention to the context of nineteenth-century imperial politics which so significantly shaped the company's development. Based chiefly o…
The great luxury liners are all but extinct today, a glorious closed chapter in the history of transportation. This sumptuous volume recalls that splendid time when the great steamers were the proudest ships afloat. Over 180 superb photographs (many never before published and ra…
Examines the life and career of William Francis Gibbs (1886-1967), the Philadelphia native whose lifelong ambition was to build the biggest, fastest, safest liner ever.
"Prior to air travel there was only one way to cross the Atlantic: by ship. By the late nineteenth century, steam ships dominated the transatlantic passenger trade, growing exponentially in size as maritime technology improved and as more immigrants poured from Europe into the N…