Ebb Tide in the British Maritime Industries: Change and Adaptation, 1918-1990 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780859897280)

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, the nation's shipbuilding output eclipsed all rivals, and British ports were busy and expanding. By 1990, British shipping was a shadow of its former self, shipbuilding seemed on the verge of total collapse, and although the ports had been modernised, trade was concentrated at only a few of them. For almost four centuries, these industries had been of vital importance to Britain's wealth and power, but by 1990, politicians scarcely gave them a second thought.

Author: Alan G. Jamieson
ISBN-10: 0859897281
ISBN-13: 9780859897280
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2002
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.56h x 6.30w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2004 pg. 31