Europe and the Maritime World

Auteur

Michael B. Miller is Professor of History at the University of Miami. He is the author of The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869 1920 (1981) and Shanghai on the Métro: Spies, Intrigue, and the French between the Wars (1994). Professor Miller serves on the board of the International Journal of Maritime History.

Texte du rabat

This book explores the development of the global economy in the twentieth century through the lens of the European maritime infrastructure.

Résumé
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, Michael B. Miller shows how a European maritime infrastructure made modern production and consumer societies possible, influencing the development of a global economy in the twentieth century.

Contenu

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.