Chapter
Chapter 1 : British Steam Navigation, 1812 to the 1850s : A Bibliographical and Historiographical Review
Chapter 2: Some Official Listings of "Vessels Navigated by Steam" in Britain up to 1851: Evidence and Interpretation
Chapter 3: The Steamboat, Safety and the State: Government Reaction to New Technology in a Period of Laissez-Faire
Chapter 4: The Steamboat and Popular Tourism
Chapter 5: The Thames and Recreation, 1815-1840
Chapter 6: Steam Shipping and the Beginnings of Overseas Tourism: British Travel to North Western Europe, 1820-1850
Chapter 7: Technological Advance and Innovation: The Diffusion of the Early Steamship in the United Kingdom, 1812-1834
Chapter 8: The Steamship as an Agent of Modernisation, 1812-1840
Chapter 9: "A New and Very Modern Business:" The Traffic and Operations of the Early Steamship
Chapter 10: Promotion, Speculation and Their Outcome: The "Steamship Mania" of 1824-1825
Chapter 11: The Perception and Understanding of New Technology: A Failed Attempt to Establish Transatlantic Steamship Liner Services, 1824-1828
Chapter 12: The "Norwich Explosion" of 1817: A Local Tragedy of National Significance
Chapter 13: Early Steamboat Services and Their Impact in North Wales, 1817-1840s
Chapter 14: The Beginnings of a New Technology: The Constructors of Early Steamboats, 1812-1822