By revealing petroleum’s role in organizing and imagining space globally, this book takes up a key task in imagining the possibilities of a post-oil future.
... Die »Randlage« des Hafens schien diesen Entwicklungen nun eine neue ... die Metropole des Handelswiedererstehensehenwollen,daßwireswollen,nichtnurumHamburgswil ... deutsche Seeschifffahrt 1821-1989.Ein Datenhandbuch (= Deutsche Maritime ...
Woerterbuch Der Seeschiffahrt: Dictionary of Merchant Shipping
Das Buch gibt einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der maritimen Dienste und die heutigen Aufgaben im Dienst für Schifffahrt und Meer.
Rather than offering a global history of the Jesuits or a linear narrative of globalization, Thomas Banchoff and José Casanova have assembled a multidisciplinary group of leading experts to explore what we can learn from the historical and ...
If it had not been for the fact that Weldon, proceeding methodically, was beaten to the punch by Malcom McLean, Matson Line would have enjoyed the reputation as the founder of the container revolution. But by the time Matson got around ...
Studies the ties between America and Bremen in the nineteenth century, illuminating the role of merchant capital in making an industrial-capitalist world economy.
From Wheel House to Counting House: Essays in Maritime Business History in Honour of Professor Peter Neville Davies (St John's: IMEHA), pp. 308 and 316. Quotes from H. W. Nordvik (1992) 'Entrepreneurship and Risk-Taking in the Norwegian ...
Critical, diverse and engaging, the book successfully answers questions such as: How can we understand cosmopolitanism? What is the relationship between cosmopolitanism and ethics?
Shipping and Trade 1750-1950: Essays in International Maritime Economic History