This is a collection of articles that examine the technical changes in shipbuilding, as well as new practices in shipping and fishing, from the late Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution. The text seeks to show how these changes transformed the European economy and affected the relationship between the economy and governments, and to portray the change - which was most dramatic in the Dutch Republic - as part of a general European phenomenon. The studies also investigate the causes behind the changes, the effects of improvements in ships on patterns of trade and the behaviour of public authorities.
- ISBN10 0860786609
- ISBN13 9780860786603
- Publish Date 15 December 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 June 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Variorum
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English