Digitally Mapping Commercial Currents: Maritime Mobility, Vessel Technology, and U.S. Colonization of Puget Sound, 1851–1861
Digitally Mapping Commercial Currents: Maritime Mobility, Vessel Technology, and U.S. Colonization of Puget Sound, 1851–1861
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数字化商业潮流测绘：海上交通、船舶技术和美国对普吉特海湾的殖民，1851 年至 1861 年
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2020
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Sean Fraga
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蒸汽动力对美国在太平洋西北地区的殖民有多重要？本文使用了普吉特海湾海关区第一个十年（1851-1861）的档案手写分类账中的数据，调查了美国最初定居期间非土著使用蒸汽动力的海上流动性。通过跟踪进出普吉特海湾的单个船只，这些数据可以以比公开来源更精确的分辨率检查历史船只流量。绘制和可视化这些数据表明，定居者更多地依赖于帆船而不是蒸汽动力的船只。尽管蒸汽动力激发了定居者的想象力，但蒸汽动力船只在普吉特海湾的船只交通中所占的比例相对较小，而且与帆船相比，它在更小的区域内服务的港口更少。1858年的弗雷泽河淘金热极大地改变了当地的旅游模式，但它对普吉特海湾商船的持久影响是，一支由小型、简单的帆船组成的新船队，主要在太平洋西北部的庇护水域航行。最终，该项目展示了从类似记录中对原始数据进行数字化分析的潜力，以更好地了解美国领土扩张的海洋维度。
How important was steam power to U.S. colonization of the Pacific Northwest? This article uses data from an archival handwritten ledger covering the Puget Sound Customs District’s first decade (1851–1861) to investigate the use of steam-powered maritime mobility by non-natives during initial American settlement. By tracking individual vessels into and out of Puget Sound, these data make it possible to examine historical vessel traffic at a much finer resolution than is available in published sources. Mapping and visualizing this data shows that settlers relied far more on sailing vessels than on steam-powered ones. Although steam power captured settlers’ imaginations, steam-powered vessels made up a relatively small portion of Puget Sound vessel traffic and served fewer ports over a smaller area than did sailing vessels. While the 1858 Fraser River gold rush significantly altered regional travel patterns, its lasting impact on Puget Sound’s merchant marine was a new flotilla of small, simple sailing vessels that operated largely within the Pacific Northwest’s sheltered waters. Ultimately, this project demonstrates the potential of digitally analyzing raw data from similar records to better understand the maritime dimensions of U.S. territorial expansion.