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This book presents an in-depth study of the impact of the steamship on Britain during its first forty years, roughly between 1810 and 1850. It relates the early steamship to several industrial themes including diffusion; construction; modernisation; the role of government - particularly the difficult attempt to align laissez-faire politics with the greater need for public safety measures due to technological advance; business and finance; plus public reaction and tourism. The aim is to establish the significance of the steamship as a conduit of modernisation and societal change. It consists of a foreword, introduction, and fourteen chapters devoted to specific themes, structured to ensure each chapters build on the preceding chapter's progress. Collectively, they demonstrate that the development of both experience and enterprise with steam power both gained and refined during this period made the mid-century expansion of steamship technology across Britain possible. Ultimately, it establishes that steamship services began to adapt to oceanic routes, steam began to integrate into the world economy, and the age of sail began to draw to a close.

Compagnies de navigation --- Bateaux à vapeur --- Histoire. --- Steamboat lines --- Steamboats --- History. --- Puffers (Steamboats) --- Steamships --- Boats and boating --- Ships --- Steam-navigation --- Steamship lines --- Ocean travel --- Shipping --- Histoire

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This study provides a history of the Port of Liverpool between 1905 and 1938, during its decline. It is particularly interested in the history of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, Liverpool's enormous and sole port authority. Adrian Jarvis contrasts the decision-making process of the Board with the financial history of the docks, in attempt to evaluate the Board successes and failures. The study accounts for and explores the factors which contributed to the decline of Liverpool's shipping industry, with topics ranging from the growth of railways, the advances in shipping technology, the success of commercial liners, to the Great Depression and Great War. The study is complemented with an appendix exploring the efficiency of ports; a bibliography; a note on the sources; an index; and a conclusion that asserts the overall merit of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board when considering the tremendous and often unpredictable challenges the Board faced, such as wartime disruption.

Harbors --- Docks --- Steamboat lines --- History. --- Liverpool (England) --- Commerce --- Steamship lines --- Ocean travel --- Shipping --- Hydraulic structures --- Anchorages (Harbors) --- Harbours --- Ports --- Seaports --- Channels (Hydraulic engineering) --- Terminals (Transportation) --- City and Borough of Liverpool (England) --- Liverpool (Merseyside)