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Europe and the maritime world : a twentieth century history /
"Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History offers a new framework for understanding globalisation over the past century. Through a detailed analysis of ports, shipping and trading companies whose networks spanned the world, Michael B. Miller shows how a European maritime infras...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History offers a new framework for understanding globalisation over the past century. Through a detailed analysis of ports, shipping and trading companies whose networks spanned the world, Michael B. Miller shows how a European maritime infrastructure made modern production and consumer societies possible. He argues that the combination of overseas connections and close ties to home ports contributed to globalisation. Miller also explains how the ability to manage merchant shipping's complex logistics was central to the outcome of both world wars. He chronicles transformations in hierarchies, culture, identities and port city space, all of which produced a new and different maritime world by the end of the century"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 435 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139531016 1139531018 9781139526340 1139526340 9781139170048 113917004X 9781139528733 1139528734 1107024552 9781107024557 9786613887269 6613887269 1139532200 9781139532204 1139540335 9781139540339 1107232031 9781107232037 1283574810 9781283574815 1139527541 9781139527545 |