Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade ReviewThe book is recommended to all who seek authoritative facts and reasoning on its subject. They will go far to find a better survey.
Richard Hill, The Naval Review
* The Naval Review *
This book is a rare animal, namely a broad work of synthesis. Maritime history as a sub-discipline is strong on highly-specialist and tightly-focussed research, rather less so on this kind of work: we need more of it. Jamieson has done a good job in ‘zooming out’ here … While established specialists in the field will no doubt regard it as a useful and interesting work, those looking for a broader coverage will find, as I did, that this is a splendid ‘one-stop-shop’, saving them several inches of bookshelf space … I commend it to everyone except nostalgic Brits with suppressed suicidal tendencies.
Andrew Jarvis, The Northern Mariner XIIITable of Contents
- Vanishing Fleets: Shipping 1918-1990
- Losing the Market: Shipbuilding 1918-1990
- Breaking with the Past: Ports 1918-1990
- Maritime Opportunity?: North Sea Oil and Gas 1964-1990
