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  • Creating Global Shipping

    Aristotle Onassis, the Vagliano Brothers, and the Business of Shipping, c.1820–1970

    Series series Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise
    Shipping has been the international business par excellence in many national economies, one that preceded trends in other, more highly visible sectors of international economic activity. Nevertheless, in both business or economic history, shipping has remained relatively overlooked. That gap is filled by this exploration of the evolution of European shipping through the study of two Greek shipping ... Leer más

    $27.89 USD

  • The World's Key Industry

    History and Economics of International Shipping

    Edición de G. Harlaftis, S. Tenold, J. Valdaliso ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Maritime transport has been the main driver of trade growth, and the emergence and development of a global economy. This collection of essays from distinguished economists and historians takes an international and comparative perspective, covering topics ranging from technological advance and the role of the state to maritime business development. ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD

  • A History of Greek-Owned Shipping

    The Making of an International Tramp Fleet, 1830 to the Present Day

    Greek-owned shipping has been at the top of the world fleet for the last twenty years. Winner of the 1997 Runciman Award, this richly sourced study traces the development of the Greek tramp fleet from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Gelina Harlaftis argues that the success of Greek-owned shipping in recent years has been a result not of a number of entrepreneurs using flags of ... Leer más

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  • The Brutish Museums

    The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution

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  • Merchant Kings

    When Companies Ruled the World, 1600–1900

    Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern worldIt was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions. They managed their territories as business interests, treating their subjects as ... Leer más

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  • A History of Britain

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  • The Historical Atlas of the British Isles

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  • Newfoundland and Labrador

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