C. Ernest Fayle

A Short History of the World's Shipping Industry (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2005. This book arose in conversation with some very good friends of the British merchant seaman who were regretting their inability to put into his hands any comprehensive one-volume history of the shipping industry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136606380
• Artikelnr.: 39993637

Autorenporträt

C. Ernest Fayle

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: The Sea as Barrier and Highway 1. 'Ships of Tarshish'
The Sea
Traders of Antiquity 2. 'Brides of the Adriatic'
The Mediterranean Epoch 3. King Herring and Golden Fleece
The Early Shipping Industry of Northern Europe 4. The Wealth of the Indies
The Opening of the Ocean Routes 5. Merchant Adventurers
The Rise of England 6. 'The prodigious increase of the Netherlands'
The Dutch as General Carriers 7. 'Ships, Colonies and Commerce'
The Era of the Navigation Acts 8. 'The Shipping Interest'
The Carrying Trade in the Eighteenth Century 9. 'White Wings' and 'Tin Kettles'
The Clipper Ship Ear and the Rise of Steam 10. Liners and Tramps
The Evolution of the Modern Shipping Industry 11. Competition and Combination
The Organisation of Modern Shipping 12. The World's Key Industry
The Shipping Industries Today