Title: Merchants and mariners : selected maritime writings of David M. Willams /
Authors: Scholl, Lars Ulrich.; Williams, David M. 1940-; Scholl, Lars Ulrich.; International Maritime Economic History Association.
Publisher: International Maritime Economic History Association,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Williams, David M.; Merchant marine Great Britain History; Merchants Great Britain History.
Abstract: This book is a tribute presented to David Malcolm Williams on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday at the Third International Congress of Maritime History in Esbjerg, Denmark (p. xxv).
Contents: Introduction / Lars U. Scholl -- David Malcolm Williams: A Tribute from an old friend / Peter N. Davies -- David M. Williams and The Writing of modern maritime history / Lewis R. Fischer -- Writings: Abolition and the re-deployment of the slave fleet, 1807-1811 (p. 1) -- Liverpool merchants and the cotton trade 1820-1850 (p. 19) -- The Shipping of the North Atlantic cotton trade in the mid-nineteenth century (p. 53) -- Merchanting in the first half of the nineteenth century: the Liverpool timber trade (p. 81) -- James Silk Buckingham: sailor, explorer and maritime reformer (p. 109) -- State regulation of merchant shipping 1839-1914: the bulk carrying trades (p. 127) -- Customs evasion, colonial preference and the British tariff, 1829-1842 (p. 157) -- Bulk passenger freight trades, 1750-1870 (p. 185) -- Henry Mayhew and the British seaman (p. 209) -- Mid-Victorian attitudes to seamen and maritime reform: the Society for improving the condition of merchant seamen, 1867 (p. 229) -- 'Advance notes' and the recruitment of maritime labour in Britain in the nineteenth century (p. 253) -- The quality, skill and supply of maritime labour: causes of concern in Britain, 1850-1914 (p. 273).