Shipping and Economic Growth 1350-1850

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-19439-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 907 g

Reihe: Global Economic History Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Unger, Richard W.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Transport- und Verkehrswirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures, Tables and Illustrations
Preface
List of Abbreviations

THE PROBLEM AND THE PROPOSITION

1. Shipping, Productivity and Economic Growth, Jan Lucassen and Richard W. Unger

PRODUCTIVITY TRENDS IN VARIOUS SHIPPING REGIMES

2. Productivity Changes in Shipping in the Dutch Republic: the Evidence from Freight Rates, 1550-1800, Milja van Tielhof and Jan Luiten van Zanden

3. The Strange Tale of the Decline of Spanish Shipping, Regina Grafe

4. Productivity in English Atlantic Shipping in the Seventeenth Century: Evidence from the Navigation Acts, Nuala Zahedieh

5. Institutions and the Environment: Shipping Movements in the North Sea/Baltic Zone, 1650-1800, David Ormrod

6. Productivity Change in Eighteenth Century Finnish Shipping, Jari Ojala

7. The Macau - Nagasaki Route (1570-1640): Portuguese Ships and their Cargoes, Rui Loureiro

8. Why Shipping “Declined” in China from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century, Kent G. Deng

9. Operational Efficiencies and the Decline of the Chinese Junk Trade in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: The Connection, Paul A. Van Dyke

SOURCES OF PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH

10. Ship Design and Energy Use, 1350-1875, Richard W. Unger

11. Work on the Docks: Sailors’ Labour Productivity and the Organization of Loading and Unloading, Jan Lucassen

12. Total Factor Productivity for the Royal Navy from Victory at Texel (1653) to Triumph at Trafalgar (1805), Patrick O'Brien and Xavier Duran

13. Sailors, National and International Labour Markets and National Identity, 1600-1850, Jelle van Lottum, Jan Lucassen and Lex Heerma van Voss

14. Characterization of Technological Change in the Shipping Industry, 1350-1800, Xavier Duran

15. Seaports as Centres of Economic Growth: the Portuguese Case, 1500-1800, Amélia Polónia

Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Richard W. Unger holds a doctorate in economic history from Yale University. He is a Professor of History at the University of British Columbia and has published articles and books on the history of ship design and shipping in premodern Europe as well as on beer production and cartography in the Renaissance.