Gelina Harlaftis

Creating Global Shipping (eBook, PDF)

Aristotle Onassis, the Vagliano Brothers, and the Business of Shipping, c.1820-1970

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This study of shipping makes visible a sector that has led European economic growth for centuries, yet rarely appears in business or economic histories.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108596138
• Artikelnr.: 70909045

Autorenporträt

Gelina Harlaftis is the director of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) in Crete, and is professor of maritime history at the Ionian University, Corfu. She was President of the International Maritime Economic History ¿ssociation, visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and an Alfred D. Chandler, Jr, International Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Business School. She has published many books, including Corsairs and Pirates in the Eastern Mediterranean, Fifteenth-Nineteenth Centuries (2016) a collection coedited with Dimitris Dimitropoulos and David J. Starkey.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The European and Greek shipping firm
2. The Vagliano shipmasters: creating a business empire, 1820s-1850s
3. An international trading house from Russia to the United Kingdom, 1850s-1880s
4. The Russian government vs. Mari Vagliano, 1881-1887
5. The Vagliano fleet and innovation in ship management
6. Merchant to shipowner: Onassis from Buenos Aires to London and New York, 1923-1946
7. The Onassis fleet, 1946-1975
8. The United States government vs. Aristotle Onassis, 1951-1958
9. Innovation in global shipping: the Onassis business
10. Diachronic presence: an epilogue.