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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, Michael B. (Michael Barry), 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Temas:
1900-1999
Merchant marine > Europe > History > 20th century.
Shipping > Economic aspects > Europe > History > 20th century.
Marine marchande > Europe > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > World.
TRANSPORTATION > Ships & Shipbuilding > Pictorial.
Commerce
Merchant marine
Shipping > Economic aspects
Handelsflottor > historia.
Sjöfart > ekonomiska aspekter > historia.
Europe > Commerce > History > 20th century.
Europe > Commerce > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Europe
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Europe and the Maritime World; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Tables, Figures, Maps; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART ONE NETWORKS; 1 Ports; NETWORKS; MAIN PORTS; Hamburg, Rotterdam, and Antwerp; Hamburg; Hamburg; Rotterdam; Rotterdam; Antwerp; Antwerp; London and Liverpool; Le Havre and Marseille; WORLD PORTS; Singapore; 2 Shipping; LOCAL TO GLOBAL; Fleet Histories; Coastal and Riverboat Feeders; The KPM; China Navigation Company; EXPERTISE; 3 Trading Companies and Their Commodities; HOUSES; Imperial Enterprises; Transnational Enterprises; Articulations.
  • COMMODITIESWool; Coffee; 4 Intermediaries; COLONIAL TRADES; ON THE WATERFRONT; INSURERS AND REGISTERS; FREIGHT FORWARDERS; SHIPBROKERS AND AGENTS; 5 Culture; DICHOTOMIES; LIVES AND EXPERIENCE; CULTURE IN ACTION; PART TWO EXCHANGES; 6 World War I; WAR AND LOGISTICS; ECONOMIC WARFARE; BALANCE SHEETS; 7 The Time of Troubles; SEA FLOWS; Trade; Passengers; PORTS; WORLD TRADING; 8 War and Remaking; WORLD WAR II; THE REVOLVING DOOR; The Remains of War; Facts Change; The Coming Shape of Things; PHOENIX REPRISED; 9 Transformation; AIR AND SEA; THE CONTAINER REVOLUTION; The Process.
  • Effects: GlobalizationEffects: Maritime Power and Culture; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.

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