Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : resource flows and maritime infrastructures / Gordon Boyce
  • Ship agents in the twentieth century / Michael B. Miller
  • Consular services of the nordic countries during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : did they really work? / Leos Müller and Jari Ojala
  • The narrow sea complex : a hidden dimension in Mediterranean maritime history / John Chircop
  • Resources and infrastructure in the Danish maritime economy : evidence for the coastal zone, 1500-2000 / Poul Holm
  • Resources and infrastructures in the maritime economy of southwest Scotland, 1750-1850 / Carol Hill
  • Fishing rights in the postwar period : the case of North Sea herring / Hrefna Karlsdóttir
  • Economy, traffic and infrastructure in the Port of Genoa, 1861-1970 / M. Elisabetta Tonizzi
  • Centralised port planning : an evaluation of the British and New Zealand experience / James Reveley and Malcolm Tull.