Europe and the Maritime World

ISBN-13: 9781107024557 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 452 str.

Michael B Miller

Opis

Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History offers a new 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.

Recenzje

'… will become a classic. This is a book that is a real pleasure to read, that is so full of information and debate that it will keep on giving.' Helen Doe, The Journal of Transport History

Spis treści

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, 1939–60s; 9. Transformation.