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  • Norwegian Shipping in the 20th Century

    Norway's Successful Navigation of the World's Most Global Industry

    by Stig Tenold ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY NC ND 4.0 license.This book belongs to the Maritime Business and Economic History strand of the Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics book series.This open access book discusses how Norwegian shipping companies played a crucial role in global shipping markets in the 20th century, at times transporting more than ten per cent of world seaborne trade. Chapters ... Read more

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  • Shipping and Globalization in the Post-War Era

    Contexts, Companies, Connections

    Edited by Niels P. Petersson, Stig Tenold, Nicholas J. White ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics
    This open access book belongs to the Maritime Business and Economic History strand of the Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics book series.This volume highlights the contribution of the shipping industry to the transformations in business and society of the postwar era. Shipping was both an example and an engine of globalization and structural change. In turn, the industry experienced and ... Read more

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  • McSmörgåsbord

    What post-Brexit Scotland can learn from the Nordics

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  • Europe and the Maritime World

    A Twentieth-Century History

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    Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History offers a framework for understanding globalization 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 infrastructure made modern production and consumer societies possible. He argues that the combination of overseas ... Read more

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    The Case of Global Shipbuilding

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