New directions in Norwegian maritime history /

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Imprint:	St. John's, Newfoundland : International Maritime Economic History Association, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Research in maritime history, 1188-3928 ; no. 46 Research in maritime history ; no. 46.
Subject:	Shipping -- Norway -- History. Merchant marine -- Norway -- History. Armed Forces. Merchant marine. Shipping. United States -- Armed Forces -- Mediterranean Region -- History. Mediterranean Region. Norway. United States. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11550207

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Other authors / contributors:	Fischer, Lewis R., editor. Lange, Even, 1946- ditor. International Maritime Economic History Association.
ISBN:	9781786948892 1786948893 9780986497360
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 24, 2018).
Summary:	This book is a wide-reaching study of Norwegian maritime history and developments within the discipline. It brings together the research efforts of a University of Oslo project aiming to further understand Norwegian shipping history between 1814 and 2014, and the work of a new generation of maritime historians. Structured into three sections - global integration, political issues, and success and failure - the volume covers a broad range of maritime topics that have influenced both Norwegian economic development and Norwegian cultural identity. Through analysis it discovers that in the last few decades Norwegian shipping has been plagued by multiple troubles, whilst simultaneously becoming less crucial to the Norwegian economy in favour of offshore petroleum production. However, it reiterates the historical importance of shipping to the economic development of Norway, and asserts that historians have begun to treat it as the centre from which other industries grew.

Table of Contents:

Global integration
A great hundred years of timber freights, 1757-1876 / Jan Tore Klovland
When distance matters: the output of the Norwegian merchant fleet, 1830-1865 / Camilla Brautaset
The silver schooner / Dag Hundstad
Political issues
In a peculiar position: merchant seamen in Norwegian health policy / Elisabeth Solvang Koren
The Norwegian-American Line: state insentives and mediations with dominant market players / Per Kristian Sebak == After the boom: the political economy of shipping in Norway in the interwar period / Eivind Marok
International maritime trade politics and the case of Norway, 1948-1990 / Andreas Nybø
Inheriting strategies: understanding different approaches to shipping during the World War I boom in Haugesund, Norway / Morten Hammerborg
Why did they fail? Business exits among Norwegian shipping companies since 1970 / Trygve Gulbrandsen
Little man, what now? Company deaths in Norwegian shipping, 1960-1980 / Stig Tenold and Karl Ove Aabru
The growth of the depp-sea car-carrying industry, 1960-2008 / Espen Ekberg.

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