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International maritime transport can be analysed from a number of equally important spheres, such as geography, business, economics and history. This new collection integrates these differing approaches for the first time

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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Yarns -- 2 Going to Sea -- 3 Work -- 4 Officers and Masters -- 5 Class -- 6 Family -- 7 Masculinity -- 8 Hazards -- 9 War -- 10 Union -- 11 Canada -- Notes -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L --...

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The Blackwell Companion to Maritime Economics presents comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the entire scope of issues relating to shipping and port economics. Unprecedented survey of maritime economics provides full coverage of shipping and port economics In depth examinations offer an...

This book examines the enormous riskiness of transatlantic trade in 18th century Spain and argues that many of the long-condemned commercial practices were vital accommodations to pervasive risk and uncertainty.

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