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Dutch Deltas
Emergence, Functions and Structure of the Low Countries’ Maritime Transport System, ca. 1300-1850
Inbunden, 2015
2606 kr
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In Dutch Deltas, Werner Scheltjens examines the emergence, functions and structure of the Low Countries’ maritime transport system between ca. 1300 and 1850. Scheltjens introduces the delta as a suitable geographical unit of analysis for understanding the regional economic origins of communities of …
Mediterranean Wooden Shipbuilding
Economy, Technology and Institutions in Syros in the Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2015
2553 kr
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In Mediterranean Wooden Shipbuilding: Economy, Technology and Institutions in Syros in the Nineteenth Century Apostolos Delis analyses the wooden shipbuilding industry of the port of Syros, an important maritime and commercial crossroad in the nineteenth century eastern Mediterranean. The main axes …
Remarkable Hybrid Maritime World of Hong Kong and the West River Region in the Late Qing Period
Inbunden, 2017
2257 kr
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Focusing on the hybrid maritime world of Hong Kong, Pearl River Delta and West River in the last two decades of the late Qing period, this work tells a vivid trading and competition story of previously unknown private Chinese traders and junk masters. This challenges the prevailing view of the …
British Shipping in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars
The Untold Story of a Successful Adaptation
Inbunden, 2017
2327 kr
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In British shipping in the Mediterranean Katerina Galani investigates the impact of the French and Napoleonic wars on British maritime economic activity. Due to the close cooperation of the public and private sector at sea, the British adopted flexible business strategies to mitigate economic …
Hamburg Marine Insurance, 1736–1859
Inbunden, 2022
2104 kr
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Since 1736, Hamburg’s price current consistently listed the marine insurance premiums of the Hanseatic Town as well as of many other European ports. Based on the long-term analysis of these quotations over the course of about 120 years, this book sheds light on the factors of influence (such as …
Famagusta Maritima
Mariners, Merchants, Pilgrims and Mercenaries
Inbunden, 2019
2212 kr
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Famagusta Maritima: Mariners, Merchants, Pilgrims and Mercenaries presents a collection of scholarly studies spanning the thousand year history of the port of Famagusta in Cyprus. This historic harbour city was at the heart of the Crusading Lusignan dynasty, a possession of both Genoa and Venice …
Early Modern Shipping and Trade
Novel Approaches Using Sound Toll Registers Online
Inbunden, 2018
2150 kr
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Early modern trade and shipping through the Danish Sound has attracted the interest of many historians since a long time. A prominent reason for this is that the route via the Sound connected Europe’s main economies with the economically important Baltic Sea region. The other reason why trade and …
Venetian Shipping from the Days of Glory to Decline, 1453–1571
Inbunden, 2021
2774 kr
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Drawing from a broad range of hitherto unpublished archival material and the reconstructed biographies of hundreds of San Marco ships, this book provides a critical overview of the Republic’s shipping activities contemporary with the major geographical discoveries of the period, the ascendency of …
Risky Markets
Marine Insurance in Renaissance Florence
Inbunden, 2020
3143 kr
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Risky Markets explores a crucial moment in the history of insurance, when tools designed to tackle sea risks were in their first making. Renaissance Florence is the setting for one of the first attempts to develop a market specialized in protecting maritime trade. Drawing on a unique collection of …
"Neither Letters nor Swimming": The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-diving
Inbunden, 2021
2445 kr
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In a novel study of the impact of classical culture, John McManamon demonstrates that Renaissance scholars rediscovered the importance of swimming to the ancient Greeks and Romans and conceptualized the teaching of swimming as an art. The ancients had a proverb that described a truly ignorant …
Greek Maritime History
From the Periphery to the Centre
Inbunden, 2022
1975 kr
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This volume presents Greek Maritime History and unravels the historical trajectory of a maritime nation par excellence in the Eastern Mediterranean. At the core of the book lies the rise of the Greek merchant fleet and its transformation from a peripheral to an international carrier. Following the …
Mediterranean Seafarers in Transition
Maritime Labour, Communities, Shipping and the Challenge of Industrialization 1850s — 1920s
Inbunden, 2022
2861 kr
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This volume discusses the effects of industrialization on maritime trade, labour and communities in the Mediterranean and Black Sea from the 1850s to the 1920s. The 17 essays are based on new evidence from multiple type of primary sources on the transition from sail to steam navigation, written in …
Sailing Shipping and Maritime Labor in Camogli (1815—1914)
Floating Communities in the Global World
Inbunden, 2022
2110 kr
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This book explores the historical evolution of a Mediterranean village that radically changed its core self-sustaining activities in less than a century, from fishing for anchovies in the Ligurian Sea to rounding Cape Horn. Drawing on a vast set of unpublished archival sources, this book addresses …
Power and Pains of Polysemy: Maritime Trade, Averages, and Institutional Development in the Low Countries (15th–16th Centuries)
Av Gijs Dreijer
Inbunden, 2023
2311 kr
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Listen to the podcast here.As the fall-out of the Ever Given Suez canal blockage shows, an ancient instrument like General Average (GA) is still highly relevant in redistributing risks and costs in maritime trade. However, bar marine insurance, not much is known about the development of tools of …
Aegean Sponge Fishing and the Island of Kalymnos (19th–20th Centuries)
Av Evdokia Olympitou, Joyce Goggin
Inbunden, 2024
2143 kr
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This is the story of an Aegean island and its people that prospered from sponge fishing. Meticulously researched, the book reveals Kalymnos’s prevalence in the business, profession and culture of sponge fishing, and its global commercial network. It analyses the fishing practices, the shipowners, …
Agrarian, Commercial, and Maritime Change in the Southeastern Black Sea Region
Production, Ecology, and Institutions (1830s–1910s)
Inbunden, 2025
2110 kr
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Economic historians have often examined the effects of the integration of the Ottoman Empire into the world markets with macro-level approaches. This book aims to scrutinize the effects of this transition to a capitalist economy through a micro-level approach instead, using micro-level data and …
La Ciotat in the Age of Steam (1836–1916)
The Messageries Maritimes and the Making of an Industrial Maritime Society
Inbunden, 2025
2288 kr
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La Ciotat, a small port-town in the French Mediterranean, underwent a profound metamorphosis during the nineteenth century. Once a small maritime community, it was transformed into the technical base and shipbuilding centre of the Compagnie des Messageries maritimes, France’s largest steam …
