A short history of the world's shipping industry
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A short history of the world's shipping industry
（Routledge library editions, . Economic history ; 038 . Business history）
Routledge, 2010, c1933
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Allen & Unwin, 1933
ISBN for subseries: "Economic history": 9780415286190; Business history: 9780415377966
Includes bibliographical references and index
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First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Table of Contents
Prologue: The Sea as barrier and highway
1. 'Ships of Tarshish' - the sea-traders of antiquity
2. 'Brides of the Adriatic' - The Mediterranean epoch
3. King Herring and Golden Fleece - the early shipping industry of northern Europe
4. The wealth of the Indies - The opening of the ocean routes
5. Merchant adventurers - the rise of England
6. 'The prodigious increase of the Netherlands' - the Dutch as general carriers
7. 'Ships, colonies and commerce' - the era of the navigation acts
8. 'The shipping interest' - the carrying trade in the eighteenth century
9. 'White wings' and 'tin kettles' - the clipper ship ear and the rise of steam
10. Liners and tramps - the evolution of the modern shipping industry
11. Competition and combination - the organisation of modern shipping
12. The world's key industry - the shipping industry's today
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