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Sail and steam : selected maritime writings of Yrjö Kaukiainen /
This collection provides a tribute to the career of maritime historian Yrjö Kaukiainen, composed upon his retirement from the University of Helsinki. It collects seventeen of his maritime essays written in English, reprinted in order to celebrate his career and impact on the field of maritime histo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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St. John's, Newfoundland :
International Maritime Economic History Association,
2004.
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| Colección: | Research in maritime history ;
no. 27. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Yrjö Kaukiainen: a tribute on the occasion of his forthcoming retirement as professor of maritime history at the University of Helsinki / by Lars U. Scholl
- Yrjö Kaukiainen: a man of the sea / by Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen
- Yrjö Kaukiainen and the development of maritime economic history / by Lewis R. Fischer
- Finnish sailors, 1750-1870
- Finnish and international maritime labour in the age of sail: was there a market?
- Five years before the mast: observations on the conditions of maritime labour in Finland and elsewhere
- The maritime labour market: skill and experience as factors of demand and supply
- Owners and masters: management and managerial skills in the Finnish ocean-going merchant fleet, c. 1840-1880
- From low-cost to high-cost shipping: Finnish maritime labour costs after the Second World War
- The modernization of Finnish coastal shipping and railway competition c. 1830-1913
- British timber imports and Finnish shipping 1860-1910
- Baltic timber-trade under sail: an example of the persistence of old techniques
- Coal and canvas: aspects of the competition between steam and sail, c. 1870-1914
- Dutch shipping and the Swedish Navigation Act (1724). A case study
- Seamen ashore: port visits of late nineteenth-century Finnish sailors
- Wreck-plundering by east Finish coastal people: criminal tradition or popular culture?
- From days and knots to pounds and dollars: some problems in the study of the economics of late nineteenth century merchant shipping
- Tons and tonnages: ship measurement and shipping statistics, c. 1870-1980
- International freight markets in the 1830s and 1840s: the experience of a major Finnish shipowner
- Shrinking the world: improvements in the speed of information transmission, c. 1820-1870
- Yrjö Kaukiainen: a maritime bibliography / by Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen.