Europe and the maritime world a twentieth-century history
Michael B. Miller
- 1. publ.
- XVI, 435 S. Ill., Kt. 23 cm
Literaturverz. S. 379 - 407 Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Machine generated contents note: Part I. Networks: 1. Ports; 2. Shipping; 3. Trading companies and their commodities; 4. Intermediaries; 5. Culture; Part II. Exchanges: 6. World War I; 7. The time of troubles; 8. War and remaking, 1939-1960s; 9. Transformation.
"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"-- Machine generated contents note: Part I. Networks: 1. Ports; 2. Shipping; 3. Trading companies and their commodities; 4. Intermediaries; 5. Culture; Part II. Exchanges: 6. World War I; 7. The time of troubles; 8. War and remaking, 1939-1960s; 9. Transformation
9781107659629 pbk. 9781107024557 (hbk.) No price
2012006481
016044586 UK
Schifffahrt Geschichte Globalisierung Europa Merchant marine--History--Europe--20th century Shipping--Economic aspects--History--Europe--20th century Geschichte 1900-1999 Europa Handel Schifffahrt
Europe--Commerce--History--20th century
Class of Fall 2015 Nina Maria Gorrissen Fellow in History Fellow International trade History 20th century Merchant marine Europe History 20th century Europe Commerce History 20th century