TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,Michael B.
TI  - Europe and the maritime world: a twentieth-century history 
SN  - 9781107024557 (hbk.)
AV  - HE 821 M649e 2012
U1  - 387.5094/0904 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - 20150800
KW  - Marina Mercante
KW  - Europa
KW  - historia
KW  - Siglo XX
KW  - Merchant  marine
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Shipping
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Comercio
KW  - Historia
KW  - Commerce
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-407) and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
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