"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 world, Michael B. Miller shows how a European maritime...

Cover -- Europe and the Maritime World -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART ONE NETWORKS -- 1 Ports -- NETWORKS -- MAIN PORTS -- Hamburg, Rotterdam, and Antwerp -- Hamburg -- Rotterdam -- Antwerp --...

Klappentext: Early modern trade and shipping through the Danish Sound has attracted the interest of many historians since a long time. A prominent reason for this is that the route via the Sound connected Europe?s main economies with the economically important Baltic Sea region. The other reason...