Format:
1 online resource (454 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781107024557
,
9781139531016
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, Michael B. Miller shows how a European maritime infrastructure made modern production and consumer societies possible, influencing the development of a global economy in the twentieth century
Note:
Cover -- Europe and the Maritime World -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART ONE NETWORKS -- 1 Ports -- NETWORKS -- MAIN PORTS -- Hamburg, Rotterdam, and Antwerp -- Hamburg -- Rotterdam -- Antwerp -- Hamburg -- Rotterdam -- Antwerp -- London and Liverpool -- Le Havre and Marseille -- WORLD PORTS -- Singapore -- 2 Shipping -- LOCAL TO GLOBAL -- Fleet Histories -- Coastal and Riverboat Feeders -- The KPM -- China Navigation Company -- EXPERTISE -- 3 Trading Companies and Their Commodities -- HOUSES -- Imperial Enterprises -- Transnational Enterprises -- Articulations -- COMMODITIES -- Wool -- Coffee -- 4 Intermediaries -- COLONIAL TRADES -- ON THE WATERFRONT -- INSURERS AND REGISTERS -- FREIGHT FORWARDERS -- SHIPBROKERS AND AGENTS -- 5 Culture -- DICHOTOMIES -- LIVES AND EXPERIENCE -- CULTURE IN ACTION -- PART TWO EXCHANGES -- 6 World War I -- WAR AND LOGISTICS -- ECONOMIC WARFARE -- BALANCE SHEETS -- 7 The Time of Troubles -- SEA FLOWS -- Trade -- Passengers -- PORTS -- WORLD TRADING -- 8 War and Remaking -- WORLD WAR II -- THE REVOLVING DOOR -- The Remains of War -- Facts Change -- The Coming Shape of Things -- PHOENIX REPRISED -- 9 Transformation -- AIR AND SEA -- THE CONTAINER REVOLUTION -- The Process -- Effects: Globalization -- Effects: Maritime Power and Culture -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Miller, Michael B. Europe and the Maritime World New York : Cambridge University Press,c2012 ISBN 9781107024557
Language:
English
Keywords:
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