The Rhine: A Study in the Geography of Water Transport

ISBN-13: 9780367744595 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 166 str.

R. E. H. Mellor

Opis

Originally published in 1983, this volume examines one of the most long-standing major commercial water-arteries of Western and Central Europe: The Rhine.

Spis treści

Part 1: Setting the Scene 1. The Physical Geography of the Rhine 2. The Regulation of the Rhine 3. The Rhine in the Network of European Waterways Part 2: The Historical Backcloth 4. The History of the Use of the Rhine – The Early Period 5. Rhine Traffic from the French Revolution to the end of the 1914-1918 War Part 3: The Rhine in the Twentieth Century 6. The Rhine Waterways 1919-1939 7. The Rhine Since 1945 8. The Rhine in the European Waterway Scene of the 1980s.

O autorze

R. E. H. Mellor was Professor of Geography at the University of Aberdeen, U.K.