John Bull, Uncle Sam, Transatlantic Steamships, and the Mail

• Main Author: John, Richard R.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Columbia University 2020
• Subjects: Postal service; Steamboat lines; Transatlantic voyages; Postal subsidies; Steamboat; Buttress; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-jjt5-w019; https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-jjt5-w019

Historical writing on North Atlantic postal communications in the mid-nineteenth century has mostly focused on the gradual ascendancy of the Halifax-based Cunard Steamship Company, which completed its first transatlantic postal voyage in 1840. Largely overlooked in this literature is the long and of...