This work describes the activities of a handful of American companies and about eighty American captains who were trying to run ships on China's great river during the treacherous days between the two world wars. The considerable physical dangers of the Yangtze itself were compounded by the greater human hazards imposed by constant fighting among warlords, piracy, brigandry, kidnapping, opium and munitions smuggling, corruption, seizures, and other forms of intimidation. The events recall--and surpass--anything of the Wild West in American frontier history. No American steamship company survived longer than twelve years in this environment, but Standard Oil, which was sheltered from the worst of the violence, was able to operate its ships throughout the entire period.
More than a naval/military, or even economic, history, this book is also a commentary on a significant but largely unsuccessful American commercial venture overseas--one that was eventually scuttled by the actions of the Chinese and the American companies themselves. Ship buffs, maritime historians, students of the evolution of modern China, and those interested in American commercial history will find this study useful and entertaining.

American Merchant Ships on the Yangtze, 1920-1941 (Contributions to the Study of Science)

History

Grover, David H.

Americas

Praeger

Diamondfield Jack: A Study in Frontier Justice

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressPublished in cooperation with the Idaho Legal SocietyIn December of 1905, ex-Governor Frank Steunenberg of Idaho was killed when a dynamite bomb shattered his home in Caldwell, Idaho. The dynamiter’s confession implicated four officials of the powerful Western Federation of Miners, a militant union that had figured prominently in the labor wars of the day. The trial of the union men became a subject of national interest.

Debaters and Dynamiters

Caxton Press

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U.S. Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II

Naval_Institute_Press

Debaters and Dynamiters : The Story of the Haywood Trial

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

Oregon State University Press

Diamondfield Jack; a study in frontier justice, (The Lancehead series: Nevada and the West)

Rules & Procedures

University of Nevada Press

Book by Grover, David H., Grover, Gretchen G.

Captives of Shanghai: The Story of the President Harrison

Grover, Gretchen G.

Western Maritime Pr

San Francisco Shipping Conspiracies of World War One

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