Merchants and mariners : selected maritime writings of David M. Williams /
This book presents twelve essays by historian David M. Williams, in order to pay tribute to his career. The essays stretch from 1807 through to the end of the nineteenth century, and address both economic and social themes. Topics include maritime trade, deployment of merchant ships, the state regul...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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St. John's, Newfoundland :
International Maritime Economic History Association,
2000.
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| Series: | Research in maritime history ;
no. 18. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Lars U. Scholl
- David Malcolm Williams: A Tribute from an old friend / Peter N. Davies
- David M. Williams and The Writing of modern maritime history / Lewis R. Fischer
- Writings: Abolition and the re-deployment of the slave fleet, 1807-1811 (p. 1)
- Liverpool merchants and the cotton trade 1820-1850 (p. 19)
- The Shipping of the North Atlantic cotton trade in the mid-nineteenth century (p. 53)
- Merchanting in the first half of the nineteenth century: the Liverpool timber trade (p. 81)
- James Silk Buckingham: sailor, explorer and maritime reformer (p. 109)
- State regulation of merchant shipping 1839-1914: the bulk carrying trades (p. 127)
- Customs evasion, colonial preference and the British tariff, 1829-1842 (p. 157)
- Bulk passenger freight trades, 1750-1870 (p. 185)
- Henry Mayhew and the British seaman (p. 209)
- Mid-Victorian attitudes to seamen and maritime reform: the Society for improving the condition of merchant seamen, 1867 (p. 229)
- 'Advance notes' and the recruitment of maritime labour in Britain in the nineteenth century (p. 253)
- The quality, skill and supply of maritime labour: causes of concern in Britain, 1850-1914 (p. 273).