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Japanese shipping and shipbuilding in the twentieth century : the writings of Peter N. Davies /

The author examines the growth and development of Japan's modern shipping and shipbuilding industries across a wide range of topics, through the pre-war, Pacific War and post-war periods, to the transfer of shipping technology, the role of bulk carriers and world trade and the organization and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davies, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Folkestone : Global Oriental Ltd., 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 British Shipping and World Trade: Rise and Decline, 1820-1939; Comment; Response; Summary of the Concluding Discussion; 2 The Rise of Japan's Modern Shipping Industry; 3 Japanese Merchant Shipping and the Bridge over the River Kwai; 4 The Development of the Japanese Shipping Industries in the Post-War Era; 5 The Role of National Bulk Carriers in the Advance of Shipbuilding Technology in Post-War Japan; 6 Japan's Merchant Marine; 7 Japanese Shipping and Shipbuilding: An Introduction to the Motives Behind Its Early Expansion.
  • 8 A Guide to the Emergence of Japan's Modern Shipping Industries9 Aspinall, Cornes and Company and the Early Development of the Port of Yokohama; 10 The Impact of Improving Communications on Commercial Transactions: Nineteenth-Century Case Studies from British West Africa and Japan; 11 Frederick Cornes, 1837-1927: Founder and Senior Partner of Cornes and Company (1873-1911); 12 The Liverpool School of Maritime History; Bibliography; Index.