Part 1: When Shipping Was King: Colonial Shipping And The Making Of America, 1600- 1783
2: Richard Hakluyt's of maritime plantations
3: John Winthrop's godly society by the sea
4: Codfish, timber, and profit
6: Shipping business in 1700
8: Coastal commerce in colonial America
10: War and transformation
Part 2: World Within Themselves: The Golden Age And The Rise Of Inland Shipping, 1783-1861
12: Robert Livingston and the art of the deal
13: Robert Fulton and the art of steaming
15: Henry Shreve and the taming of the river
16: DeWitt Clinton and the canal craze
17: Rushing to San Francisco
18: Steam, speed, schedule: a business model for the golden age
19: Matthew Fontaine Maury and the growth of infrastructure
Part 3: Maritime Industry And Labor In The Gilded Age, 1861-1914
22: Benjamin Franklin Isherwood and the industrialization of ship production
23: Alabama and commerce war
24: Cornelius Vanderbilt and the rise of the railroad
25: Marcus Hanna and the growth of heartland shipping
26: John Lynch and the quest for national maritime policy
27: John Roach and the new shipbuilding
28: West Coast shipping and the rise of maritime labor
29: Andrew Furuseth, the unions, and the law
30: Ships, steel, and more labor.
Part 4: Weight Of War, 1905-1956
31: Mahan, Roosevelt, and the Seaborne Empire
32: War and Woodrow Wilson
33: Robert Dollar and the business of shipping, 1920-1929
34: Tale of Two Harrys: The Radicalization of West Coast Labor
35: Hugo Black and direct subsidy, 1935-1941
36: Henry Bacon and war in the Atlantic, 1941-1945
37: Henry Kaiser and war in the Pacific, 1941-1945
38: Edward Stettinius and flags of convenience
Part 5: Megaship: The Rise Of The Invisible, Automated Bulk Carrier, 1956-2000
39: Daniel K Ludwig and the giant ships
40: Malcom McLean and the container revolution
41: Farewell the finger pier: the changing face of ports
42: Shrinking giant: maritime labor in an age of mechanization
43: Richard Nixon and the quest for National Maritime Policy
45: Ted Arison and the fun cruise for thousands
Appendix A: World and U S commercial vessels
Appendix B: Value of U S waterborne cargo, 1790-1994
Appendix C: Maritime Labor, 1925-2000
Appendix D: U S Shipbuilding, 1769-1969