Author: Hyde, Francis E.
Title: Shipping Enterprise and Management 1830 - 1939. Harrisons of Liverpool
Description: Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 1967. orig.cloth. 23x16cm, xx,208,(14)pp. Frontis.14pp photoplates. Minor rubbing, VG, in a rubbed,frayed & faded dustwrapper. dust ¶ Contents: Creation of a Shipping Line, 1830 - 1910: The Pattern of Partnership, 1830-1884; The Organisation of the Oceanic Trades: New Orleans and Calcutta; The Organisation of the Oceanic Trades: West Indies, Mexico, and Brazil; Expansion, Competition, and Financial Organisation, 1885 - 1914: Conference Agreements & Freight Rates: The Indian Trade; Competition, Conferences & Freight Rates: The South African Trade; Finance & Policy: 1885 - 1914; The Management and Allocation of Resources, 1914 - 1939: The Decline & Growth in the Trades, 1919 - 1939; Decision-Taking in Years of Fluctuation & Depression, 1924-1939; The Allocation of Resources &the Strength of Management.

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