Rise of the English Shipping Industry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Details:
- Author(s) Davis, Ralph
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1962
- Pages 427pp; illus
- Publisher National Maritime Museum
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Workers / employee & work, women & men
- Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Reprinted including 1972. Scholarly study. Deals with extent of the industry and reasons for its growth; its internal organisation - investors, ship management, developments in shipbuilding, conditions, etc, of seamen; the different internal trades and the response of the industry to them; government intervention; profitability. The chapters include: 'The widening of horizons, 1560-1689'; 'Consolidation, 1689-1775'; 'Ships and shipbuilders in the seventeenth century'; 'Ships and shipbuilders in the eighteenth century'; 'The shipowners'; 'The merchant seamen'; 'The pay and conditions of merchant seamen'; 'Shipping management and the role of the master'; 'Shipping and trade'; 'The nearby and northern European trades'; 'The southern European and Mediterranean trades'; 'The East India trade'; 'The American and East Indian trades'; 'The government and the shipping industry'; 'War and the shipping industry'; 'Four ships and their fortunes'; 'Was it a profitable business?'