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Europe and the maritime world : a twentieth century history / Michael B. Miller.

By: Miller, Michael B. (Michael Barry), 1945-Publication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. Description: xvi, 435 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 9781107024557 (hbk.) :; 1107024552 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Merchant marine -- Europe -- History -- 20th century | Shipping -- Economic aspects -- Europe -- History -- 20th century | HISTORY / World | Europe -- Commerce -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 387.50940904 LOC classification: HE821 | .M55 2012Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Table of contents only

Contents:

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.

Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Book-Circulating	Fischer Hall Library Main shelves	HE821. M55 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Purchased with the support of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies.		B007441

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-407) and index.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.