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Dedication

Prologue THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN AND THE BRITANNIA

PART ONE: The Packet Ship Era, 1820-1840

1. The Sailing Packets

2. Steam on Water

PART TWO: The Era of Cunard Domination, 1840-1870

3. Ships as Enterprise: Samuel Cunard of Halifax

4. Ships as Engineering: Isambard Kingdom Brunel

5. The Cunard Line

6. The Collins Line

7. Distinguished Failures

8. Emigration and the Inman Line

9. Life on a Steamer

PART THREE: The Era of Steamship Competition, 1870-1910

10. The White Star Line

11. Competition and Invention

12. Ships as Buildings: Two Cycles to Cunard

13. Ships as Towns: Officers, Crew, Steerage

14. Anglo-Americans

15. Germans

16. The Two Finest Cunarders

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

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Q&A

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A Critical Eye

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