Ebb Tide in the British Maritime Industries: Change and Adaptation, 1918-1990

by Alan G. Jamieson

This book examines how the principal British maritime industries - shipping, shipbuilding and ports - adapted, or failed to adapt, to a changing world in the period 1918 to 1990, and discusses their reactions to the great opportunities seemingly offered by offshore oil and gas from the mid-1960s. At the outbreak of World War I, Britain's maritime industries still dominated the world. The British merchant fleet was by far the largest in the world,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859897281
• ISBN13: 9780859897280
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.6"