Shipping and Economic Growth 1350-1850
Biographical note
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.
Readership
Economic historians and political and institutional historians of early modern Europe and East Asia, as well as people interested in ships and travel by sea.
Table of contents
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
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
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