clipper ships and, see clipper ships
currency and, 153–54
education and, xi
election of 1860 and, 309
England-to-China clipper race and, 237–43
First Opium War and, 62
immigrants and, 73, 149, 163, 165, 168, 169, 185–88, 220–21, 288
Japan and, 305–6
Manifest Destiny and, 200
opium-based drugs and, 307, 314–15
transatlantic cable and, xi-xii, 176, 295–96, 332
transatlantic trade and, 24–25, 67–68, 72, 106–7, 130, 139–41, 149, 150, 159, 163, 168–70, 183, 184, 189, 190–91, 207, 258, 261–63, 267, 273, 307–8, 310
United States Mail Steamship Company, 217, 302
Upton, George, 258, 268
Utah, 330
Valparaiso, Chile, 176, 219, 250, 261
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 76, 156, 284
Vanity Fair magazine, 322
Velázquez, Diego, 286
Venice, xii
Verdi, Guiseppe, 74
Victoria, Queen of England, 41, 132, 295
Vietnam, 19
Virginia, CSS, 312–13
Wadsworth, Francesco, 215
Wagner, Richard, 131, 137
wagon trains, 154
Walker, R. J., 177
Walsh, Mike, 76
Waltham, Mass., 287
Wamsutta Mills, 78
Wanghia, Treaty of (1844), 101–2, 107
War Department, U.S., 315
War of 1812, 12, 18, 23, 57, 67, 87, 104, 105, 109, 130, 315
Washington, George, 21
Washington Irving, 165, 168
Waterman, Cordelia, 133–34, 236, 350
Waterman, Robert, 124, 130–32, 133, 134, 158, 196, 206–7, 223–26, 231, 232–33, 249
Challenge mutiny and, 224–26, 236
retirement and, 236–37, 349–50
trial of, 235–36
Webb, Isaac, 108, 167
Webb, William H., 167, 199–200, 223, 231, 237, 256, 268, 302, 327–28
Webster, Daniel, 171
Weed, Thurlow, 186
Weld, William Fletcher, 175
Westervelt shipyard, 195
Wetmore, William S., 187
Wetmore & Company, 13, 118, 119, 187
whale oil, 22, 24, 25, 76, 181, 183, 203, 261, 277
whaling industry, 2, 22–23, 24, 25, 71, 180, 181, 182, 183, 310, 320
wheat, 193, 299–300
Whig Party, 185
Whirlwind, 218
White Diamond Line, 168, 169, 186, 191
White-Jacket (Melville), 215, 225
White Squall, 278
Whitman, Walt, 67–68, 193
W. H. Webb, 107
widow’s walks, 196
Wight, Isle of, 241–42
Wild Duck, 288
Wild Goose (ship’s captain), 335
Wild Pigeon, 237
Wilkes, Charles, 151
Williams, John E., 192
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 74–75, 283
Winds and Currents Charts (Maury), 150–52, 154, 162, 212, 213, 228, 281
Winthrop, John, 180
Wisconsin, 229
Witch of the Wave, 218
wood, shipbuilding and, 104–5, 111, 112, 113, 114, 166, 237
workers’ rights, 76, 287–88
Wu Chongyao (“Young Houqua”), 341–42
Xiamen, China, 10, 59, 62, 97
Yale University, 23–24, 349
Yankees, 26, 65–81, 86, 101, 196, 285, 286, 304
yellow fever, 156
Yorkshire, 262
Young America, 290
Zephyr, 86, 88
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Title: Barons of the sea : and their race to build the world’s fastest clipper ship / Steven Ujifusa.
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