Exploiting The Sea
Aspects of Britain's Maritime Economy since 1870
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
208 pages
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8-4/5 x 5-4/5
Exploiting the Sea offers new perspectives on Britain's vital but changing relationship with the sea since the late nineteenth century. It assesses the significance to the British economy of sea-reliant industries such as shipping, shipbuilding, fishing, coastal trading and seaside tourism. It also seeks to explain why the clear pre-eminence that Britain established in the maritime world during the Victorian era has not been sustained in the twentieth century.
Exploiting the Sea is a new volume in the highly successful EXETER MARITIME STUDIES series, and brings together contributions from experts writing in their own specialist fields to give a wide-ranging but structured analytical approach to a misunderstood subject.
International Journal of Maritime History
“A collection that considers a very wide range of the functional aspects of Britain’s relative and absolute maritime decline.” –International Journal of Maritime History
Work Boat World Magazine
“A fascinating history that contains many lessons for those currently involved in the maritime industries.” –Work Boat World Magazine, July 2001
Asia Pacific Shipping
“A fascinating history that contains many lessons for those currently involved in the maritime industries.” –Asia Pacific Shipping, Aug 2001
The Great Circle
“The strength of these papers lies in their breadth. They are well written and researched pieces, and there will be few maritime historians who won’t find something new and interesting amongst these studies.” –The Great Circle, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2001
Contents
Introduction: The Maritime Dimension of the British Economy, David J. Starkey (University of Hull)
Climax and Climacteric: The British Coastal Trade 1870-1930, John Armstrong (Thames Valley University)
Britain's Shipping Interests since 1930, Alan G. Jamieson (University of Exeter)
Dockyards and Dockyard Towns 1880-1939, Peter Hilditch (Cambridge)
Naval Procurement and the British Shipbuilding Industry 1945-64, Lewis Johnman and Anthony Gorst (University of Westminster)
Cornish Fish and Norwegian Ice, Tony Pawlyn (University of Exeter)
The Development of the British Distant-water Trawling Industry 1890-1939, Robb Robinson (Hull College)
Yachting and Aquatic Recreation 1890-1960, Janet Cusack (University of Exeter)
Twentieth-century Seaside Tourism Strategies, Nigel Morgan (University of West Glamorgan)
British Shipping and the British Economy since 1870: A Retrospective View, Sidney Pollard (University of Sheffield)
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