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Greenwood Press
Language
English
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238

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Subjects

Bibliography, Historiography, Shipwrecks, Titanic (Steamship), Titanic (steamship)

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North Atlantic Ocean

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The Titanic: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography (Bibliographies and Indexes in World History, 53)
2001, ABC-CLIO, LLC
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September 30, 2001, Greenwood Press
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
ABBREVIATIONS xiii
PART I HISTORIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE
CHAPTER I PURPOSE, SCOPE, AND FORMAT 1
A. Purpose
B. Introduction
C. Rationale 3
D. Scope and Format3
E. Features6
CHAPTER 2 CHRONOLOGY7
CHAPTER 3 GENERAL REFERENCES 13
A. Archives 13
B. Libraries 15
C. Depository Centers 16
D. The Internet 17
E. Reference Publications 18
1. Bibliographies 18
2. Encyclopedias 18
3. Guides 19
CHAPTER 4 BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT 21
A. The Edwardian Era 21
B. Great Shipping Disasters 23
C. Domination of Great Britain 25
D. Technology and Science 26
1. Shipbuilding and Engineering 27
2. Nautical Archaeology 28
3. Wireless 30
4. History of Icebergs 31
CHAPTER 5 "THE ONLY WAY TO CROSS": THE OCEAN LINER 33
A. Competition in Passenger Service 34
B. North Atlantic Passenger Service 35
1. Emigration 37
2. Luxury 38
3. Speed 38
CHAPTER 6 THE BUILDER AND THE COMPANY 41
A. Harland and Wolff 41
B. White Star Line 42
C. The Three-Ship Plan: OLYMPIC, TITANIC,
(GIGANTIC?), BRITANNIC 43
CHAPTER 7 RMS TITANIC 47
A. Building and Launching 47
B. Specifications of RMS TITANIC 48
C. The Maiden Voyage and Disaster 49
D. The Rescue 51
1. CARPATHIA and Captain Arthur Rostron 51
2. CALIFORNIAN and Captain Stanley Lord 52
E. Search for Bodies: Halifax and Canada 54
F. The Official Inquiries 55
1. The United States 55
2. The United Kingdom 56
3. Court Cases 57
G. Aftermath and Safety 57
H. The "Numbers Game" 58
CHAPTER 8 EXPEDITIONS TO DISCOVER 61
CHAPTER 9 PERSONALITIES 65
CHAPTER 10 WORKSABOUTRMS TITANIC 77
A. Historical 77
1. In English 77
2. In Foreign Languages 82
B. Accounts by Survivors 83
C. Juvenile Non-fiction 85
D. Fiction 87
1. Juvenile Fiction 87
2. Adult Fiction 88
E. Premonitions and the Paranormal 90
F. Publishers 92
CHAPTER 11 JOURNALISM, MORALS, MYTHS, MEMORIES,
AND TRIVIA 93
A. Journalism 93
B. Morals 95
C. Myths 97
D. Memories 99
E. Trivia 100
CHAPTER 12 ASSESSMENTS 101
A. Assessments 101
B. The Latest Science 103
CHAPTER 13 AREAS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH 105
PART II DESCRIPTIVE LISTS 111
A. Paintings and Photographs 111
B. Sermons 112
C. Poems 113
D. Music 116
E. Movies 118
F. Musicals and Dramas 124
G. Museums and Institutions 125
H. Exhibitions 129
I. Associations and Societies 130
J. Journals 133
K. Memorials 137
L. Memorabilia 139
PART III ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 147
Author Index 225
Subject Index 235.

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Includes indexes.

Published in
Westport, Conn
Series
Bibliographies and indexes in world history,, no. 53
Genre
Bibliography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
016.91/09163/4
Library of Congress
Z6016.S55 R37 2001, Z6016

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 238 p. ;
Number of pages
238

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3946736M
ISBN 10
031331215X
LCCN
2001033082
OCLC/WorldCat
46661866
Goodreads
4334358

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"The TITANIC: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography, a volume in the Bibliographies and Indexes in World History series of Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, is a complete reference and research guide."

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