Format:
XVI, 435 S.
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Ill.
ISBN:
9781139170048
Content:
Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History offers a framework for understanding globalization 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 globalization. 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
Content:
Ports -- Shipping -- Trading companies and their commodities -- Intermediaries -- Culture -- World War I -- The time of troubles -- War and remaking : 1939-1960s -- Transformation
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107024557
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107659629
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107024557
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139170048
URL:
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