Sail and steam
Subtitle: selected maritime writings of Yrjö Kaukiainen
By: compiled by Lars U. Scholl and Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen.
Contributors: Scholl, Lars Ulrich.; Hinkkanen-Lievonen, Merja-Liisa.; International Maritime Economic History Association.
Series: Research in maritime history,; no. 27
Publisher: International Maritime Economic History Association
Published: 2004
Place of publication: St. John's, Nfld
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Navigation -- History.; Navigation -- Finland -- History.; Merchant marine -- History.; Merchant marine -- Finland -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-266).
Table of contents: title: Yrjö Kaukiainen: a tribute on the occasion of his forthcoming retirement as professor of maritime history at the University of Helsinki / by Lars U. Scholl; title: Yrjö Kaukiainen: a man of the sea / by Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen; title: Yrjö Kaukiainen and the development of maritime economic history / by Lewis R. Fischer; title: Finnish sailors, 1750-1870; title: Finnish and international maritime labour in the age of sail: was there a market?; title: Five years before the mast: observations on the conditions of maritime labour in Finland and elsewhere; title: The maritime labour market: skill and experience as factors of demand and supply; title: Owners and masters: management and managerial skills in the Finnish ocean-going merchant fleet, c. 1840-1880; title: From low-cost to high-cost shipping: Finnish maritime labour costs after the Second World War; title: The modernization of Finnish coastal shipping and railway competition c. 1830-1913; title: British timber imports and Finnish shipping 1860-1910; title: Baltic timber-trade under sail: an example of the persistence of old techniques; title: Coal and canvas: aspects of the competition between steam and sail, c. 1870-1914; title: Dutch shipping and the Swedish Navigation Act (1724). A case study; title: Seamen ashore: port visits of late nineteenth-century Finnish sailors; title: Wreck-plundering by east Finish coastal people: criminal tradition or popular culture?; title: From days and knots to pounds and dollars: some problems in the study; title: of the economics of late nineteenth century merchant shipping; title: Tons and tonnages: ship measurement and shipping statistics, c. 1870-1980; title: International freight markets in the 1830s and 1840s: the experience of a major Finnish shipowner; title: Shrinking the world: improvements in the speed of information transmission, c. 1820-1870; title: Yrjö Kaukiainen: a maritime bibliography / by Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen.