Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
10,000 Years of Greek Shipping
A History of Greek-Owned Shipping
Author: Gelina Harlaftis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134990111
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Greek-owned shipping has been at the top of the world fleet for the last twenty years. Winner of the 1997 Runciman Award, this richly sourced study traces the development of the Greek tramp fleet from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Gelina Harlaftis argues that the success of Greek-owned shipping in recent years has been a result not of a number of entrepreneurs using flags of convenience in the 1940s, but of networks and organisational structures which date back to the nineteenth century. This study provides the most comprehensive history of development of modern Greek shipping ever published. It is illustrated with numerous maps and photographs, and includes extensive tables of primary data.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134990111
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Greek-owned shipping has been at the top of the world fleet for the last twenty years. Winner of the 1997 Runciman Award, this richly sourced study traces the development of the Greek tramp fleet from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Gelina Harlaftis argues that the success of Greek-owned shipping in recent years has been a result not of a number of entrepreneurs using flags of convenience in the 1940s, but of networks and organisational structures which date back to the nineteenth century. This study provides the most comprehensive history of development of modern Greek shipping ever published. It is illustrated with numerous maps and photographs, and includes extensive tables of primary data.
Greek Maritime History
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004467726
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
This volume presents Greek Maritime History to a wider audience and unravels the historical trajectory of a maritime nation par excellence in the Eastern Mediterranean: the rise of the Greek merchant fleet and its transformation from a peripheral to an international carrier.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004467726
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
This volume presents Greek Maritime History to a wider audience and unravels the historical trajectory of a maritime nation par excellence in the Eastern Mediterranean: the rise of the Greek merchant fleet and its transformation from a peripheral to an international carrier.
The Ten Thousand
Author: Michael Curtis Ford
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429904364
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
After decades of war, mighty Athens has been ravaged-- its navy destroyed, its city walls toppled, its army disbanded. The fierce military state of Sparta has triumphed, but passions and hate linger on. Thousands of battle-hardened veterans from both sides in the conflict remain scattered across the Greek islands, restless and dangerous-- until the young Persian prince Cyrus issues a call to arms from his base in Asia Minor. The rogue nobleman is raising an enormous mercenary army to wrest control of all of Persia, the most powerful empire on earth, from his half-brother the king. The young philosopher-warrior Xenophon, scion of a noble Athenian family and follower of Socrates, risks his father's wrath and embarks on the adventure with high hopes for glory. Joining his cousin Proxenus, the war-maddened Spartan general Clearchus, and a huge body of Cyrus' native troops, he and ten thousand Greek mercenaries depart on an astounding march of a thousand miles, across the searing desert. Their near-deadly journey culminated in a massive, bloody battle at the very threshold of Babylon-- a battle that proves disastrous for them. Their leaders are betrayed and murdered, their supply lines cut, and their route home across the desert blocked by the furious Persian king, bent on revenge. The Fates call on Xenophon to lead the devastated Greek soldiers in their escape, though he has little experience in commanding men. As the army flees toward the snowy north, its situation appears desperate. Months later, ten thousand battered, half-starved soldiers stagger out of the frozen mountains of Armenia into a small Greek trading post on the Black Sea. Their true tale of survival, and of the heroic expedition Xenophon led through the heart of an enemy empire, astonished the incredulous natives and has been the stuff of legend ever since. Michael Curtis Ford combines his expertise on fifth-century B.C. Greek warfare with explosive page-turning action to give us an epic novel of struggle and survival. Not since Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire has any book so vividly captured the glory, beauty, and savage bloodshed that was ancient Greece.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429904364
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
After decades of war, mighty Athens has been ravaged-- its navy destroyed, its city walls toppled, its army disbanded. The fierce military state of Sparta has triumphed, but passions and hate linger on. Thousands of battle-hardened veterans from both sides in the conflict remain scattered across the Greek islands, restless and dangerous-- until the young Persian prince Cyrus issues a call to arms from his base in Asia Minor. The rogue nobleman is raising an enormous mercenary army to wrest control of all of Persia, the most powerful empire on earth, from his half-brother the king. The young philosopher-warrior Xenophon, scion of a noble Athenian family and follower of Socrates, risks his father's wrath and embarks on the adventure with high hopes for glory. Joining his cousin Proxenus, the war-maddened Spartan general Clearchus, and a huge body of Cyrus' native troops, he and ten thousand Greek mercenaries depart on an astounding march of a thousand miles, across the searing desert. Their near-deadly journey culminated in a massive, bloody battle at the very threshold of Babylon-- a battle that proves disastrous for them. Their leaders are betrayed and murdered, their supply lines cut, and their route home across the desert blocked by the furious Persian king, bent on revenge. The Fates call on Xenophon to lead the devastated Greek soldiers in their escape, though he has little experience in commanding men. As the army flees toward the snowy north, its situation appears desperate. Months later, ten thousand battered, half-starved soldiers stagger out of the frozen mountains of Armenia into a small Greek trading post on the Black Sea. Their true tale of survival, and of the heroic expedition Xenophon led through the heart of an enemy empire, astonished the incredulous natives and has been the stuff of legend ever since. Michael Curtis Ford combines his expertise on fifth-century B.C. Greek warfare with explosive page-turning action to give us an epic novel of struggle and survival. Not since Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire has any book so vividly captured the glory, beauty, and savage bloodshed that was ancient Greece.
Greek Maritime History
Author: Katerina Galani
Publisher: Brill's Studies in Maritime Hi
ISBN: 9789004467712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"This volume presents Greek Maritime History and unravels the historical trajectory of a maritime nation par excellence in the Eastern Mediterranean. At the core of the book lies the rise of the Greek merchant fleet and its transformation from a peripheral to an international carrier. Following the evolution of Greek shipping for more than three centuries (17th-20th century), the book traces a maritime nation in its making and provides proof of a different, yet successful pattern of maritime development compared to other European maritime nations. The chapters adopt a multidimensional and interdisciplinary approach - spanning from shipping, fishing and trade to piracy, technology, human resources and entrepreneurship - and reflect the main directions of Greek maritime historiography over the last thirty years. Contributors are: Apostolos Delis, Dimitris Dimitropoulos, Zisis Fotakis, Katerina Galani, Gelina Harlaftis, Evdokia Olympitou, Gerassimos D. Pagratis, Alexandra Papadopoulou, Socrates Petmezas, Evrydiki Sifneos, Anna Sydorenko, Ioannis Theotokas, and Katerina Vourkatioti"--
Publisher: Brill's Studies in Maritime Hi
ISBN: 9789004467712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"This volume presents Greek Maritime History and unravels the historical trajectory of a maritime nation par excellence in the Eastern Mediterranean. At the core of the book lies the rise of the Greek merchant fleet and its transformation from a peripheral to an international carrier. Following the evolution of Greek shipping for more than three centuries (17th-20th century), the book traces a maritime nation in its making and provides proof of a different, yet successful pattern of maritime development compared to other European maritime nations. The chapters adopt a multidimensional and interdisciplinary approach - spanning from shipping, fishing and trade to piracy, technology, human resources and entrepreneurship - and reflect the main directions of Greek maritime historiography over the last thirty years. Contributors are: Apostolos Delis, Dimitris Dimitropoulos, Zisis Fotakis, Katerina Galani, Gelina Harlaftis, Evdokia Olympitou, Gerassimos D. Pagratis, Alexandra Papadopoulou, Socrates Petmezas, Evrydiki Sifneos, Anna Sydorenko, Ioannis Theotokas, and Katerina Vourkatioti"--
Creating Global Shipping
Author: Gelina Harlaftis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108475396
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
This study of shipping makes visible a sector that has led European economic growth for centuries, yet rarely appears in business or economic histories.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108475396
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
This study of shipping makes visible a sector that has led European economic growth for centuries, yet rarely appears in business or economic histories.
Greek Shipowners and Greece, 1945-1975
Author: Gelina Harlaftis
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Greek ship-operating industry underwent a period of extraordinary growth in the years following the Second World War. But the factors in this growth have been the subject of considerable, uninformed debate, as have the benefits to Greece itself. This book presents and analyzes data which makes it possible for an informed historical view to be taken of Greek pre-eminence in sea transport.
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Greek ship-operating industry underwent a period of extraordinary growth in the years following the Second World War. But the factors in this growth have been the subject of considerable, uninformed debate, as have the benefits to Greece itself. This book presents and analyzes data which makes it possible for an informed historical view to be taken of Greek pre-eminence in sea transport.
Greek Shipowners and Greece
Author: Gelina Harlaftis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474241409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This account of the extraordinary growth of the Greek ship-operating industry following the Second World War is a major breakthrough. The body of data presented and analysed makes it possible to form an informed historical view of Greek pre-eminence in sea transport.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474241409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This account of the extraordinary growth of the Greek ship-operating industry following the Second World War is a major breakthrough. The body of data presented and analysed makes it possible to form an informed historical view of Greek pre-eminence in sea transport.
Archaeology and the Social History of Ships
Author: Richard A. Gould
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521567893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
A review of underwater archaeology offering a clear exposition of new developments in undersea technologies.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521567893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
A review of underwater archaeology offering a clear exposition of new developments in undersea technologies.
Leadership in World Shipping
Author: I. Theotokas
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230233538
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A new look at the leadership of Greek ship owners in world shipping in the second half of the twentieth century. This book examines the fundamental factors of the dynamism of Greek entrepreneurship in family businesses and provides evidence for the organization, management and strategies of Greek family shipping companies.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230233538
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A new look at the leadership of Greek ship owners in world shipping in the second half of the twentieth century. This book examines the fundamental factors of the dynamism of Greek entrepreneurship in family businesses and provides evidence for the organization, management and strategies of Greek family shipping companies.