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Title Making global and local connections : historical perspectives on ports / edited by Tapio Bergholm, Lewis R. Fischer, and M. Elisabetta Tonizzi
Published St. John's, Newfoundland : International Maritime Economic History Association, 2007

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Description 1 online resource
Series Research in maritime history, 1188-3928 ; no. 35
Research in maritime history ; no. 35. 1188-3928
Contents Part I: Port Case Studies -- The International Scope of Bordeaux Port: Logistics, Economic Effects and Business Cycles in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Hubert Bonin and Bruno Marnot -- The Lancashire Cotton Lobby and the Making of the Manchester Ship Canal from 1883 to the Interwar Period / Edouard Guionnet -- Mormugao Port: The Golden Gateway to Goa / Jeronimo G.R. Monteiro -- New Perspectives on Port Competition: Antwerp and Rotterdam, 1945-1975 / Stéphane Hoste, Reginald Loyen and Stephan Vanfraechem -- The Environmental Impact of Ports: An Australian Case Study / Malcolm Tull -- A Survey of the Operations of the Port of Kaohsiung, 1949-1957: The Policies for Survival? / Chih-lung Lin -- Part II: Port Systems -- The Northwest Portuguese Seaport System in the Early Modern Period / Amélia Polónia -- Discourse and the Container Revolution in Finland in the 1960s and 1970s / Kari Teräs -- The Ports of Northern Chile: A Mining History in Long-Run Perspective, 1880-2002 / Marc Badia-Miró -- Globalization and Privatisation of Ports in Turkey / Hülya Günaydin
Summary This book provides a series of case studies concerning ports and port communities from around the world, in attempt to determine the impact of globalisation on the port industry and the link between local and global port conditions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 24, 2018)
Subject Harbors -- History
Marine terminals -- History
TRANSPORTATION -- Ships & Shipbuilding -- Pictorial.
Harbors
Marine terminals
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bergholm, Tapio, 1958- editor.
Fischer, Lewis R., editor
Tonizzi, M. Elisabetta, editor
International Maritime Economic History Association, issuing body.
ISBN 9781786949011
1786949016
Other Titles Historical perspectives on ports