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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| When Shipping Was King: Colonial Shipping and the Making of America, 1600-1783 | |
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| The Colonies and the Sea | |
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| Richard Hakluyt's Maritime Plantations | |
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| John Winthrop's Godly Society by the Sea | |
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| Codfish, Timber, and Profit | |
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| An Infant Industry | |
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| The Shipping Business in 1700 | |
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| The Eclipse of Boston | |
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| Coastal Commerce in Colonial America | |
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| The Sailor's Life | |
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| War and Transformation | |
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| A World within Themselves: The Golden Age and the Rise of Inland Shipping, 1783-1861 | |
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| A Tale of Two Ports | |
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| Robert Livingston and the Art of the Deal | |
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| Robert Fulton and the Art of Steaming | |
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| The War of 1812 | |
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| Henry Shreve and the Taming of the River | |
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| DeWitt Clinton and the Canal Craze | |
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| Rushing to San Francisco | |
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| Steam, Speed, Schedule: A Business Model for the Golden Age | |
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| Matthew Fontaine Maury and the Growth of Infrastructure | |
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| Maritime Industry and Labor in the Gilded Age, 1861-1914 | |
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| The Hinge of War | |
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| Anaconda, Anyone? | |
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| Benjamin Franklin Isherwood and the Industrialization of Ship Production | |
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| The Alabama and Commerce War | |
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| Cornelius Vanderbilt and the Rise of the Railroad | |
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| Marcus Hanna and the Growth of Heartland Shipping | |
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| John Lynch and the Quest for a National Maritime Policy | |
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| John Roach and the New Shipbuilding | |
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| West Coast Shipping and the Rise of Maritime Labor | |
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| Andrew Furuseth, the Unions, and the Law | |
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| Ships, Steel, and More Labor | |
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| The Weight of War, 1905-1956 | |
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| Mahan, Roosevelt, and the Seaborne Empire | |
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| War and Woodrow Wilson | |
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| Robert Dollar and the Business of Shipping, 1920-1929 | |
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| A Tale of Two Harrys: The Radicalization of West Coast Labor | |
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| Hugo Black and Direct Subsidy, 1935-1941 | |
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| The Henry Bacon and the War in the Atlantic, 1941-1945 | |
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| Henry Kaiser and the War in the Pacific, 1941-1945 | |
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| Edward Stettinius and Flags of Convenience | |
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| Megaship: The Rise of the Invisible, Automated Bulk Carrier, 1956-2000 | |
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| Daniel K. Ludwig and the Giant Ships | |
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| Malcom McLean and the Container Revolution | |
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| Farewell the Finger Pier: The Changing Face of Ports | |
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| The Shrinking Giant: Maritime Labor in an Age of Mechanization | |
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| Richard Nixon and the Quest for a National Maritime Policy | |
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| Hot Wars and Cold | |
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| Ted Arison and the Fun Cruise for Thousands | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| World and U.S. Commercial Vessels | |
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| Value of U.S. Waterborne Cargo, 1790-1994 | |
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| Maritime Labor, 1925-2000 | |
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| U.S. Shipbuilding, 1769-1969 | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliographic Essay | |
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| Notes | |
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| Art Credits | |
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| Index | |