needs : the cost of war and extraordinary revenue -- Foreseeing difficulties and administering for the future : the public … debt -- The administration of income : spending and the contractor state -- Shipbuilding, the navy and the contractor state …

"Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History" offers a new framework for understanding globalisation … over the past century. Through a detailed analysis of ports, shipping and trading companies whose networks spanned the … also explains how the ability to manage merchant shipping's complex logistics was central to the outcome of both world wars …

Marseille -- WORLD PORTS -- Singapore -- 2 Shipping -- LOCAL TO GLOBAL -- Fleet Histories -- Coastal and Riverboat Feeders … -- LIVES AND EXPERIENCE -- CULTURE IN ACTION -- PART TWO EXCHANGES -- 6 World War I -- WAR AND LOGISTICS -- ECONOMIC WARFARE … -- BALANCE SHEETS -- 7 The Time of Troubles -- SEA FLOWS -- Trade -- Passengers -- PORTS -- WORLD TRADING -- 8 War and Remaking …