Evolution and Significance of the Powered Bulk Carrier
«'One of the best and most thorough expositions of a complicated subject that I have ever read, a book that fills a huge gap in our maritime history during one of its most crucial periods. Britain 'ruled the waves' in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but there is a tendency to think that this was due to naval warships or huge ocean liners! This book shows that without the humble 'black freighters', Britain’s maritime pre-eminence would have been inconceivable.'
Dr David Jenkins, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales»
The book is the first to detail the 170-year evolution of the powered bulk carriers which continue to have a major role in the world’s trades and economies. Their design and technological development is traced from the screw colliers of the 1850s which revolutionised the British coastal coal trade. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Liverpool University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 288
- ISBN
- 9781802078596
- Utgivelsesår
- 2023
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
Anmeldelser
«'One of the best and most thorough expositions of a complicated subject that I have ever read, a book that fills a huge gap in our maritime history during one of its most crucial periods. Britain 'ruled the waves' in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but there is a tendency to think that this was due to naval warships or huge ocean liners! This book shows that without the humble 'black freighters', Britain’s maritime pre-eminence would have been inconceivable.'
Dr David Jenkins, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales»