Record Nr.

UNINA9910785522003321

Autore

Miller Michael B (Michael Barry), <1945->

Titolo

Europe and the maritime world : a twentieth-century history / / Michael B. Miller, University of Miami [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN


1-139-54033-5
1-107-23203-1
1-139-52634-0
1-283-57481-0
1-139-52754-1
9786613887269
1-139-53220-0
1-139-52873-4
1-139-17004-X
1-139-53101-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 435 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

HIS037000

Disciplina

387.5094/0904

Soggetti

Merchant marine - Europe - History - 20th century

Shipping - Economic aspects - Europe - History - 20th century

Europe Commerce History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ports -- Shipping -- Trading companies and their commodities -- Intermediaries -- Culture -- World War I -- The time of troubles -- War and remaking : 1939-1960s -- Transformation.

Sommario/riassunto

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.