Shipping and economic growth 1350-1850 / edited by Richard W. Unger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Unger, Richard W.

Series:

Global economic history series ; v. 7.

Global economic history series, 1872-5155 ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shipping--Europe--History.

Shipping.

Labor productivity--Europe--History.

Labor productivity.

Economic development--Europe--History.

Economic development.

Stevedores--Europe--History.

Stevedores.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (484 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In sixteen essays authors explore the dramatic rise in the efficiency of European shipping in the three centuries before the Industrial Revolution. They offer reasons for the greater success of the sector than any other in making better use of labor. They describe the roots - political, organizational, technological, ecological, human - of rising productivity, treating those sources both theoretically and empirically. Comparisons with China show why Europeans came to dominate Asian waters. Building on past research, the volume is a statement of what is known about that critical sector of the early modern European economy and indicates the contribution shipping made to the emergence of the West as the dominant force on the oceans of the world.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / R. W. Unger

Chapter One. Shipping, Productivity And Economic Growth / Jan Lucassen and Richard W. Unger

Chapter Two. Productivity Changes In Shipping In The Dutch Republic: The Evidence From Freight Rates, 1550–1800 / Milja Van Tielhof and Jan Luiten Van Zanden

Chapter Three. The Strange Tale Of The Decline Of Spanish Shipping / Regina Grafe

Chapter Four. Productivity In English Atlantic Shipping In The Seventeenth Century: Evidence From The Navigation Acts / Nuala Zahedieh

Chapter Five. Institutions And The Environment: Shipping Movements In The North Sea/Baltic Zone, 1650–1800 / David J. Ormrod

Chapter Six. Productivity Change In Eighteenth Century Finnish Shipping / Jari Ojala

Chapter Seven. The Macau-Nagasaki Route (1570–1640): Portuguese Ships And Their Cargoes / Rui Manuel Loureiro

Chapter Eight. Why Shipping “Declined” In China From The Middle Ages To The Nineteenth Century / Kent G. Deng

Chapter Nine. Operational Efficiencies And The Decline Of The Chinese Junk Trade In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries: The Connection / Paul A. Van Dyke

Chapter Ten. Ship Design And Energy Use, 1350–1875 / Richard W. Unger

Chapter Eleven. Work On The Docks: Sailors’ Labour Productivity And The Organization Of Loading And Unloading / Jan Lucassen

Chapter Twelve. Total Factor Productivity For The Royal Navy From Victory At Texel (1653) To Triumph At Trafalgar (1805) / Patrick Karl O’ Brien and Xavier Duran

Chapter Thirteen. Sailors, National And International Labour Markets And National Identity, 1600–1850 / Jelle Van Lottum , Jan Lucassen and Lex Heerma Van Voss

Chapter Fourteen. Characterization Of Technological Change In The Shipping Industry, 1350–1800 / Xavier Duran

Chapter Fifteen. Seaports As Centres Of Economic Growth: The Portuguese Case, 1500–1800 / Amélia Polónia

Bibliography / R. W. Unger

List Of Contributors / R. W. Unger

Index / R. W. Unger.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-12061-5

9786613120618

90-04-19440-1

OCLC:

727948456

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004194397.i-464 DOI