The vital spark : the British coastal trade, 1700-1930 /

The vital spark : the British coastal trade, 1700-1930 /

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Author / Creator:Armstrong, John, 1944-2017, author.
Imprint:St. John's, Newfoundland : International Maritime Economic History Association, 2009.
Description:1 online resource (ix, 353 pages).
Language:English
Series:Research in maritime history, 1188-3928 ; no. 40
Research in maritime history ; no. 40.
Subject:
Coastwise shipping -- Great Britain -- History.
Coastwise shipping.
Great Britain.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11550216
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Varying Form of Title:British coastal trade, 1700-1930
Other authors / contributors:International Maritime Economic History Association.
ISBN:9781786948960
1786948966
9780986497308
9781786944542 (hardback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Print version record.
Summary:This book collects seventeen previously published essays by John Armstrong concerning the British coastal trade. Armstrong is a leading maritime historian and the essays provided here offer a thorough exploration of the British coastal trade, his specialisation, during the period of industrialisation and technological development that would lead to modern shipping. The purpose is to demonstrate the whether or not the coastal trade was the main carrier of internal trade and a pioneer of the technical developments that modernised the shipping industry. Each essay makes an original contribution to the field and covers a broad range of topics, including the fluctuating importance of the coastal trade and size of the coastal fleet over time; the relationship between coastal shipping, canals, and railways; a comparison between the coastal liner and coastal tramp trade; the significance of the river Thames in enabling trade; coastal trade economics; maritime freight rates; the early twentieth century shipping depression; competition between coastal liner companies; and a detailed study of the role of the government in coastal shipping. The book also contains case studies of the London coal trade; coastal trade through the River Dee port; and the Liverpool-Hull trade route. It contains a foreword, introduction, and bibliography of Armstrong's writings. There is no overall conclusion, except the assertion that coastal shipping plays a tremendous role in British maritime history, and a call for further research into the field.
Other form:Print version: Armstrong, John, 1944- Vital spark. St. John's, Nfld. : International Maritime Economic History Association, 2009 9780986497308
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; About the Author; Introduction; Chapter 1: British Coastal Shipping: A Research Agenda for the European Perspective; Chapter 2: The Significance of Coastal Shipping in British Domestic Transport, 1550-1830; Chapter 3 : The British Coastal Fleet in the Eighteenth Century: How Useful Are the Admiralty's Registers of Protection from Impressment?; Chapter 4: Management Response in British Coastal Shipping Companies to Railway Competition; Chapter 5: Conferences in British Nineteenth-Century Coastal Shipping.
  • Chapter 12: An Estimate of the Importance of the British Coastal Liner Trade in the Early Twentieth CenturyChapter 13: The Role of Coastal Shipping in UK Transport: An Estimate of Comparative Traffic Movements in 1910; Chapter 14: Climax and Climacteric: The British Coastal Trade, 1870-1930; Chapter 15: The Shipping Depression of 1901 to 1911: The Experience of Freight Rates in the British Coastal Coal Trade; Chapter 16: The Coastal Trade of Connah's Quay in the Early Twentieth Century: A Preliminary Investigation.
  • Chapter 6: Coastal Shipping: The Neglected Sector of Nineteenth-Century British Transport HistoryChapter 7: Railways and Coastal Shipping in Britain in the Later Nineteenth Century: Cooperation and Competition; Chapter 8: The Crewing of British Coastal Colliers, 1870-1914; Chapter 9: Late Nineteenth-Century Freight Rates Revisited: Some Evidence from the British Coastal Coal Trade; Chapter 10: Liverpool to Hull
  • By Sea?; Chapter 11: Government Regulation in the British Shipping Industry, 1830-1913: The Role of the Coastal Sector.

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