The Philadelphia Navy Yard

Author : Jeffery M. Dorwart
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780812235753
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philadelphia Navy Yard written by Jeffery M. Dorwart and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begun in 1762 as a collection of skilled shipwrights, the Philadelphia Navy Yard witnessed the birth of the US Navy and the Marine Corps, and played a leading role in technical innovation. This work on the contributions of America's first government-operated naval shipyard provides a complete history of the relationship of this important facility to local and national politics and social and economic change. Includes bandw historical photos and illustrations. Dorwart teaches history at Rutgers University-Camden. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Joseph-James Ahern
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738590240
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philadelphia Naval Shipyard written by Joseph-James Ahern and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first government-owned navy yard in Philadelphia, the birthplace of the nation and the largest city in the young republic, was started with two docks in 1798. The area was enlarged and shipbuilding at this site increased, notably during the War of 1812 and the Civil War. The yard's area was not dramatically increased, however, until the federal government purchased the 800-acre League Island and closed the former facility in 1868. The golden age of the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard came during World War II, when it built fifty-three ships and converted or overhauled some twelve hundred more. Workers at the yard numbered seventy thousand at its peak. After the 1970s, however, shipbuilding was discontinued. The yard continued to serve its country through the modernization of existing craft, but it was closed by the government in 1990 and officially decommissioned in 1996.

Author : New London Navy Yard Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Review of the Minority Report, on the Navy Yard Question written by New London Navy Yard Committee and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Laurence Kauffman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philadelphia's Navy Yards (1801-1948) written by James Laurence Kauffman and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Navy Department
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navy-yard, Washington written by United States. Navy Department and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
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Download or read book Charlestown Navy Yard, Historic Resource Study, Volume 3 of 3, 2010 written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas F. Berner
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738556956
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brooklyn Navy Yard written by Thomas F. Berner and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not much larger than a few city blocks (219 acres, plus 72 acres of water), the Brooklyn Navy Yard is one of the most historically significant sites in America. It was one of the U.S. Navy's major shipbuilding and repair yards from 1801 to 1966. It produced more than 80 warships and hundreds of smaller vessels. At its height during World War II, it worked around the clock, employing some 70,000 people. The yard built the Monitor, the world's first modern warship; the Maine, whose destruction set off the Spanish-American War; the Arizona, whose sinking launched America into World War II; and the Missouri, on whose deck World War II ended. On June 25, 1966, the flag at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was lowered for the last time and the 165-year-old institution ceased to exist. Sold to the City of New York for $22.4 million, the yard became a site for storage of vehicles, some light industry, and a modest amount of civilian ship repair.

Author : Ronald Wayne Hess
Publisher : RAND Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Closing and Reuse of the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard written by Ronald Wayne Hess and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report describes the distinctly European business philosophy of the eventual tenant, Norwegian shipbuilding giant Kvaerner, and the conditions of its deal with the city and concludes that the Philadelphia example should be considered by other U.S. military shipyards that might be faced with closure in the future.

Author : Washington (Battleship)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U.S.S. Washington, Navy Day, Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1945 written by Washington (Battleship) and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louise A. Mozingo
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262338289
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pastoral Capitalism written by Louise A. Mozingo and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-05-27 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How business appropriated the pastoral landscape, as seen in the corporate campus, the corporate estate, and the office park. By the end of the twentieth century, America's suburbs contained more office space than its central cities. Many of these corporate workplaces were surrounded, somewhat incongruously, by verdant vistas of broad lawns and leafy trees. In Pastoral Capitalism, Louise Mozingo describes the evolution of these central (but often ignored) features of postwar urbanism in the context of the modern capitalist enterprise. These new suburban corporate landscapes emerged from a historical moment when corporations reconceived their management structures, the city decentralized and dispersed into low-density, auto-dependent peripheries, and the pastoral—in the form of leafy residential suburbs—triumphed as an American ideal. Greenness, writes Mozingo, was associated with goodness, and pastoral capitalism appropriated the suburb's aesthetics and moral code. Like the lawn-proud suburban homeowner, corporations understood a pastoral landscape's capacity to communicate identity, status, and right-mindedness. Mozingo distinguishes among three forms of corporate landscapes—the corporate campus, the corporate estate, and the office park—and examines suburban corporate landscapes built and inhabited by such companies as Bell Labs, General Motors, Deere & Company, and Microsoft. She also considers the globalization of pastoral capitalism in Europe and the developing world including Singapore, India, and China. Mozingo argues that, even as it is proliferating, pastoral capitalism needs redesign, as do many of our metropolitan forms, for pressing social, cultural, political, and environmental reasons. Future transformations are impossible, however, unless we understand the past. Pastoral Capitalism offers an indispensible chapter in urban history, examining not only the design of corporate landscapes but also the economic, social, and cultural models that determined their form.