Steam Titans: Cunard, Collins, and the Epic Battle for Commerce on the North Atlantic

When:
Thursday, Oct 12, 2017 5:30p -
7:00p

Where:
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215

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Admission:
$20

Categories:
Date Idea, Lectures & Conferences

Event website:
https://www.masshist.org/calendar/event?event=2288

Steam travel transformed the Atlantic into a pulsating highway, dominated by ports in Liverpool and New York. American raw materials flowed eastward, while goods, capital, people, and technology crossed westward. While the Anglo-American “partnership” fueled development worldwide; it also gave rise to a particularly intense competition. William Fowler (Northeastern University) will guide us through the transatlantic fight that pitted two men—Samuel Cunard and Edward Knight Collins—and two nations using tools of technology, finance, and politics to wrest control of the globe's most lucrative trade route.

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