Short History of the World's Shipping Industry

First Published in 2005. This book arose in conversation with some very good friends of the British merchant seaman who were regretting their inability to put into his hands any comprehensive one-volume history of the shipping industry. <p>Prologue: The Sea as Barrier and Highway 1. 'Ships of Tarshish' - The Sea-Traders of Antiquity 2. 'Brides of the Adriatic' - The Mediterranean Epoch 3. King Herring and Golden Fleece - The Early Shipping Industry of Northern Europe 4. The Wealth of the Indies - The Opening of the Ocean Routes 5. Merchant Adventurers - The Rise of England 6. 'The prodigious increase of the Netherlands' - The Dutch as General Carriers 7. 'Ships, Colonies and Commerce' - The Era of the Navigation Acts 8. 'The Shipping Interest' - The Carrying Trade in the Eighteenth Century 9. 'White Wings' and 'Tin Kettles' - The Clipper Ship Ear and the Rise of Steam 10. Liners and Tramps - The Evolution of the Modern Shipping Industry 11. Competition and Combination - The Organisation of Modern Shipping 12. The World's Key Industry - The Shipping Industries Today</p>