Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 10/11/2012
EAN 9781107024557, ISBN10: 1107024552
Hardcover, 452 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History offers a framework for understanding globalization 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 globalization. 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.
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, 1939–60s
9. Transformation.
Advance praise: 'This book opens up a challenging and audacious new perspective on the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century globalization through its focus on European shipping, traders, and ports, and the networks that linked them. The ambitious scope of the book, resting as it does on deep research in many archives in many countries, is refreshing and a model of how transnational history should be written. The nuanced discussion of the evolving relationship between the global and the local is essential reading for all historians of globalization.' Geoffrey Jones, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Harvard Business School