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Harbours and havens : essays in port history in honour of Gordon Jackson /

This book is a collection of ten essays concerning various aspects of ports, port towns, and port history, by means of tribute to the maritime historian, Gordon Jackson.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fischer, Lewis R. (Editor ), Jarvis, Adrian (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: St. John's, Nfld. : [Place of publication not identified] : International Maritime Economic History Association ; Oxford University Press USA : Liverpool University Press, 2017.
Colección:Research in maritime history ; no. 16.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Gordon Jackson: An Appreciation
  • Port History: Some Thoughts on Where it Came from and Where it Might be Going; Port Politics: Interest, Faction and Port Management in Mid-Victorian Liverpool; Our Little Company:' The Wilsons and North Eastern Railway Shipping Company Limited, 1906-1935
  • The Changing Functions of a Rural Port: Dumfries, 1700- 1850; Australian Ports Since 1945; Aspinall, Cornes and Company and the Early Development of the Port of Yokohama; Dubai: From Creek to Global Port City.
  • New York's German Suburb: The Creation of the Port of Bremerhaven, 1827-1918Capital and Labour in the Port Town of Esbjerg, 1945- 1999
  • Port Policies: Seaport Planning around the North Atlantic, 1850-1939; Gordon Jackson: A Bibliography.