Miller M. Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History

Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 452 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-02455-7We know a great deal about how Europeans sailed in ships to the far reaches of the world, set in motion a process of world integration, and,from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, established extended maritime empires. Strangely, we know much less about how Europeans circulated goods and people across the seas in the twentieth century, even though industrial societies, consumer societies, overseas empires, and mass travel could not have developed as they did without the European steamship lines, European ports, Europeanmerchant companies, European markets, and European intermediaries that made these things possible. Europeans did not monopolize the sea lanes, but they did control them for almost the entire century.Tables, Figures, Maps pageNetworks
Ports
Shipping
Trading Companies and Their Commodities
Intermediaries
Culture
Exchanges
World War I
The Time of Troubles
War and Remaking: 1939–1960s
Transformation