Robert E. Forrester

British Mail Steamers to South America, 1851-1965 (eBook, ePUB)

A History of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and Royal Mail Lines

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

During the nineteenth century the British government and the Admiralty provided large subsidies to commercial companies to run international mail services. Concentrating on the service between Britain and South America, this book explores the economic, maritime and political aspects of the Royal Mail Lines company between 1851 and 1965, and reveals the impacts that a long-distance mail service had upon travel, trade, commerce and the changing patterns of global information exchange.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317171843
• Artikelnr.: 49354151

Autorenporträt

Robert E. Forrester spent twenty years at sea as cadet and deck officer, the last ten with Royal Mail Lines including frequent voyages to South America. In 1965 he left the sea and for the next twenty years was involved with press advertising and as managing director of a magazine publishing company. Following his retirement he studied for an MA (2001) in Maritime Studies at the Greenwich Maritime Institute followed by a PhD in 2006.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 1840: The West Indies Mail Contract
Chapter 2 1851: Across the South Atlantic
Chapter 3 A Decade of Contrasting Fortunes
Chapter 4 The Second Epoch
Chapter 5 Difficult Trading Conditions
Chapter 6 A Period of Uncertainty
Chapter 7 Focus on South America
Chapter 8 The First World War and its Aftermath
Chapter 9 Post-war Downturn and Collapse
Chapter 10 Royal Mail Lines Ltd
Chapter 11 The War Years, 1939'"45
Chapter 12 Post-war Recovery
Chapter 13 The End of the Line