British Shipping and World Competition.
This work is a reprint of a 1962 book, British Shipping and World Competition, by maritime economist Dr S.G. Sturmey. It seeks to explain why the tonnage of ships registered in the United Kingdom declined from forty-five percent of the world total in 1900, to sixteen percent by 1960.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Liverpool University Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Research in Maritime History LUP.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; About the Author; Preface; Figures and Tables; Chapter 1: The Problem Defined; Chapter 2: High Water: The Pre-1914 Period; Chapter 3: War and Reconstruction; Chapter 4: The Troubled Years: The Interwar Period; Chapter 5: Nationalism in Shipping in the Interwar Years; Chapter 6: The Birth of the Liberty; Chapter 7: The Prosperous Age: The Postwar Period; Chapter 8: Enemies of Competition in the Postwar Years; Chapter 9: Flags of Convenience; Chapter 10: Economics of Shipping Enterprises.
- Chapter 11: Shipowning and Resource AllocationChapter 12: Labour Relations and Labour Costs (by Basil Mogridge); Chapter 13: The Conference System; Chapter 14: The Structure of the British Industry; Chapter 15: The Question Answered; Epilogue: The Future; Appendix: The Contribution of British Shipping to the Balance of Payments; Bibliography; Index.
