The World’s Key Industry

Edited by Gelina Harlaftis, Stig Tenold and Jesús M. Valdaliso

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Date: 2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-00375-1
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction

Gelina Harlaftis, Stig Tenold and Jesús M. Valdaliso

Ch 2 Lewis R. Fischer and the Progress of Maritime Economic History

David M. Williams and Lars U. Scholl

Ch 3 Shipping and Staple Economies in the Periphery

Knick Harley

Ch 4 An Appraisal of the Progress of the Steamship in the Nineteenth Century

David M. Williams and John Armstrong

Ch 5 The Advantages of Water Carriage: Scale Economies and Shipping Technology, c. 1870–2000

Yrjö Kaukiainen

Ch 6 Building the Networks of Trade: Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Maritime History

Espen Ekberg, Even Lange and Eivind Merok

Ch 7 The Development of Commercial Infrastructure for World Shipping

Gordon Boyce

Ch 8 Government and the British Shipping Industry in the Later Twentieth Century

Sarah Palmer

Ch 9 Why They are Tall and We are Small! Competition between Antwerp and Rotterdam in the Twentieth Century

Stephan Vanfraechem

Ch 10 Institutional Path Dependence in Port Regulation: A Comparison of New Zealand and Australia

James Reveley and Malcolm Tull

Ch 11 China’s Seaport Development during the Early Open Door Policy Period, 1978–2002

Adolf K. Y. Ng and Ka-chai Tam

Ch 12 Private Companies, Culture and Place in the Development of Hull’s Maritime Business Sector, c.1860–1914

Michaela G. Barnard and David J. Starkey

Ch 13 Risks and Rewards: The Business of Norwegian Shipping

Stig Tenold

Ch 14 Business Groups and Entrepreneurial Families in Southern Europe: Comparing Greek and Spanish Shipowners in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Gelina Harlaftis and Jesús M. Valdaliso

Ch 15 Epilogue: A Key Industry or an Invisible Industry?

Gelina Harlaftis, Stig Tenold and Jesús M. Valdaliso

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