steamship: Bibliography

See J. T. Flexner, Steamboats Come True (1944); J. H. Morrison, History of American Steam Navigation (1977); F. Talbot, Steamship Conquest of the World, 1812–1912 (1977); S. Fox, Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamship (2003).

• Introduction
• Early Steam-powered Ships
• Oceangoing Steamships
• Era of the Ocean Liners
• The Demise of the Steamship
• Bibliography

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