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Book SynopsisAristotle Onassis was the most famous shipowner of the twentieth century. He became the archetype and image of the ship-owning magnate, the symbol of Greek enterprise on a global scale. What distinguished him from the rest was that he created the shipping business of the new global era, combining the European maritime tradition and the American institutions and resources. Almost all books written on Onassis focus on his lifestyle and personal life. This is the first book examining all aspects of his multi-faceted global business activities in the shipping, airline and oil industries. It is based on the newly-formed Onassis Archive comprising thousands of new and unpublished files of his core business. Contributors are: Alexandra Papadopoulou, Amalia Pappa, Maria Damilakou, Lars Scholl, and Christos Tsakas.
Table of ContentsContents Foreword Anthony S. Papadimitriou Prologue and Acknowledgements Gelina Harlaftis List of Tables List of Figures, Maps and Images Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction Gelina Harlaftis 1 The Onassis Family: Family and Business Network Gelina Harlaftis 2 The Business Career of Aristotle Onassis, 1924–1975 Gelina Harlaftis 3 Onassis in Argentina (1923–1940): The Shaping of an Entrepreneur Maria Damilakou 4 The ‘Onassiada’: The Conflict with the Greek Shipowning Establishment Gelina Harlaftis 5 The Great Innovation: The Offshore Empire Gelina Harlaftis 6 Onassis’s People: ‘Business Family’, Administration and Management Gelina Harlaftis 7 Tankers, Oil, and Money: Innovation in Shipbuilding and Finance Gelina Harlaftis 8 Whaling in the Southern Seas and Antarctica Lars Scholl 9 ‘Game History’: The Conflict with the United States Gelina Harlaftis 10 Olympic Airways, 1956–1974, Part 1 Alexandra Papadopoulou 11 OMEGA Industrial Investments SA Christos Tsakas 12 World-Wide Mobility, Political Networking and Sociability Gelina Harlaftis 13 After Onassis. The Onassis Shipping Group from 1975 to the Present Gelina Harlaftis 14 The Archive of the Aristotle Onassis Enterprises: ‘Underway’ Amalia Pappa, Alexandra Papadopoulou and Gelina Harlaftis Appendices Bibliography Index
