Research in Maritime History, Vol. 46

Lewis R. Fischer and Even Lange (eds.),
New Directions in Norwegian Maritime History
 

Table of Contents

About the Editors / iii

Contributors' Notes / v

Introduction / 1

Global Integration

 Jan Tore Klovland, “A Great Hundred Years of Timber Freights, 1757-1876” / 7
Camilla Brautaset, “When Distance Matters: The Output of the Norwegian Merchant Fleet, 1830-1865” / 37

Dag Hundstad, “The Silver Schooner” / 57


Political Issues

Elisabeth Solvang Koren, “In a Peculiar Position: Merchant Seamen in Norwegian Health Policy, 1890-1940” / 83

Per Kristian Sebak, “The Norwegian-American Line: State Incentives and Mediations with Dominant Market Players” / 101

Eivind Merok, “After the Boom: The Political Economy of Shipping in Norway in the Interwar Period” / 125

Andreas Nybø, “International Maritime Trade Politics and the Case of Norway, 1948-1990” / 151 
 

Success and Failure

Morten Hammerborg, “Inheriting Strategies: Understanding Different Approaches to Shipping during the World War I Boom in Haugesund, Norway” / 177

Trygve Gulbrandsen, “Why Did They Fail? Business Exits among Norwegian Shipping Companies since 1970” / 199

Stig Tenold and Karl Ove Aarbu, “Little Man, What Now? Company Deaths in Norwegian Shipping, 1960-1980” / 233

Espen Ekberg, “The Growth of the Deep-Sea Car-Carrying Industry, 1960-2008” / 253


Updated: April 23, 2012