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A View of American Shipping Policy, 1883

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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Abstract

The profitability of American-flag shipping has been an issue before private and public policy makers since 1789. The debate continues today as every new Presidential administration faces the task of balancing the economic and strategic values of an American merchant marine.

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Information
Business History Review , Volume 39 , Issue 1: Special Transportation Issue , Spring 1965 , pp. 120 - 126
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1965

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References

1 See, for example: Hutchins, John G. B., The American Maritime Industries and Public Policy, 1789–1914: An Economic History (Cambridge, Mass., 1941)Google Scholar; Ferguson, Allen R., et al., The Economic Value of the United States Merchant Marine (Evanston, 1961)Google Scholar; and Boczek, Boleslaw A., Flags of Convenience: An International Legal Study (Cambridge, Mass., 1962).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Swann, Leonard A. Jr, “John Roach: Maritime Entrepreneur” (Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University, 1963).Google Scholar

3 Report of the Committee of the Senate upon the Relations between Labor and Capital and Testimony Taken by the Committee (5 vols., Washington, 1885). Roach's testimony, given in New York, September 4 and 12, 1883, is in vol. I, pp. 994–1053 and vol. II, pp. 86–150. The excerpts above are from vol. I, pp. 1042–17 and vol. II, pp. 97–99.