What caused the wave of globalisation before 1914? Was it declining maritime transport costs, migration, international capital flows, trade policies or something else?
A few decades ago, Western Europe decided that shipbuilding was not a strategic industry and instead started to focus support on maritime shipping. Smart choice?
The flag of a ship often bears no relation to the nationality of the ship owner or operator. How did we end up in that situation? This book gives some compelling answers.
“The desire to move away from all macro history and synthetic work runs at times counter to the desire to move social sciences towards more global and less Eurocentric accounts.” This is a great effort of a non-Eurocentric version of international history and world politics