Title: Blackout
Description: "Explores the ocean world and the enterprises--licit and illicit--that flourish in the privacy afforded by its horizons. [The] forty-three thousand ships [that] ply the open ocean ... are the embodiment of modern global capital and the most independent objects on earth ... Here is free enterprise at its freest ... But its efficiencies are accompanied by global problems--shipwrecks and pollution, the hard lives and deaths of the crews, and the growth of ... piracy and ... stateless terrorism"--jacket.
Subjects: Psychological aspects of Electric power failures, Social aspects, Seafaring life, Ships, Merchant marine, Shipping, Social aspects of Electric power failures, Scheepvaart, Case studies, Electric power failures, Law of the sea, Psychological aspects, Criminaliteit, Nationality, Terrorism, Schipbreuken, Electric power
Places: New York, New York (State)