Preliminary Economic Studies of the War. Influence of the Great War upon shipping
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- Author(s) Smith, J Russell
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1919
- Pages 357pp
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Geopolitical event, natural disaster, etc, impact on business inc end of empire, war, disease, catastrophe, etc, exc industrial conflict
- Name Public ownership & control inc nationalisation, municipalisation & privatisation
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Commissioned by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from a US academic in 1917. Deals with the effect of the war on USA and UK shipping industries and, to a much lesser extent, on their shipbuilding industries. Contains sections: Organisation of world shipping before the war; World's shipping Industry during the war with an emphasis on freight rates; Effects of the war on marine insurance; Trade dislocation due to war; Government aid to shipping; Control and operation of shipping by the British government, 1914-18; Control and operation of shipping by the USA government, 1914-18; Shipbuilding and the war - technical developments; Shipbuilding in the UK; Shipbuilding in the USA; Shipping policy after the war