The World’s Key Industry

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Lewis R. Fischer and the Progress of Maritime Economic History

Chapter 3 Shipping and Staple Economies in the Periphery

Chapter 4 An Appraisal of the Progress of the Steamship in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 5 The Advantages of Water Carriage: Scale Economies and Shipping Technology, c. 1870–2000

Chapter 6 Building the Networks of Trade: Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Maritime History

Chapter 7 The Development of Commercial Infrastructure for World Shipping

Chapter 8 Government and the British Shipping Industry in the Later Twentieth Century

Chapter 9 Why They are Tall and We are Small! Competition between Antwerp and Rotterdam in the Twentieth Century

Chapter 10 Institutional Path Dependence in Port Regulation: A Comparison of New Zealand and Australia

Chapter 11 China’s Seaport Development during the Early Open Door Policy Period, 1978–2002

Chapter 12 Private Companies, Culture and Place in the Development of Hull’s Maritime Business Sector, c.1860–1914

Chapter 13 Risks and Rewards: The Business of Norwegian Shipping

Chapter 14 Business Groups and Entrepreneurial Families in Southern Europe: Comparing Greek and Spanish Shipowners in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Chapter 15 Epilogue: A Key Industry or an Invisible Industry?