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Maritime History as Global History.

This study aims to provide new insights into the connections between maritime history and global history. It demonstrates the significance of maritime activity as a conduit of global exchange by examining local, national, and international interdependencies and trade networks, and a broad range of t...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Fusaro, Maria
Autres auteurs: Polónia, Amélia
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oxford : Liverpool University Press, 2017.
Collection:Research in Maritime History LUP.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Pgae; Table of Contents; About the Editors; Contributors' Notes; Maritime History: A Gateway to Global History?; Behind the Atlantic Expansion: Flemish Trade Connections of Seville in 1620; National and International Labour Markets for Sailors in European, Atlantic and Asian Waters, 1600-1850
  • Maritime Expansion and (De)globalization? An Examination of the Land and Sea Trade in Seventeenth-Century Mughal India; From Hold to Foredeck: Slave Professions in the Maritime World of the East India Company, c. 1660-1720
  • Small Town Merchants, Global Ventures: The Maritime Trade of the New Julfan Armenians in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesLighting up the World? Empires and Islanders in the Pacific Whaling Industry, 1790-1860
  • Technological Advances in the Maritime Sector: Some Implications for Trade, Modernization and the Process of Globalization in the Nineteenth Century; Lost in Calculation? Norwegian Merchant Shipping in Asia, 1870-1914
  • Why Are the Major Oil Companies Selling Off their Fleets? The Case of Total