Europe and the maritime world
Subtitle: a twentieth century history
By: Michael B. Miller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781107024557
Subjects: HISTORY / World; Commerce; Merchant  marine; Shipping; History
Description: "Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History offers a new framework for understanding globalisation 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 globalisation. 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 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, 1939-1960s; 9. Transformation.