Capitalism and the Sea : The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World.: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Campling, Liam; Colás, Alejandro
• Contents: Cover Page -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A Terraqueous Predicament -- Temporalities -- Spatialities -- Lives -- 1. Circulation -- 'Expediting of the Affair of Negoce': The Maritime Factor in Capitalism -- Networks of Commodity Exchange -- Calculations of Risk, Casualties of Credit -- Market Integration through the Sea -- Capitalism, Circulation and Production -- The Commercialisation Model and Its Critics -- Circulation and the Maritime Frontier -- 2. Order -- A Nomos of the Sea Freedom of the Seas -- The Globalisation of Navalism -- Command of the Commons -- Stocks and Flows: Piracy and Disputed Sovereignty in the Contemporary Maritime Order -- 3. Exploitation -- Maritime Labour Regimes under the Pax Britannica -- Globalising Capital and Cosmopolitan Labour -- Discipline and Punish: 'The Special Circumstances of a Ship at Sea' -- Radical Resistance, Liberal Reform -- Maritime Labour Regimes in the Neoliberal Era -- Changing Conditions of Work -- Transnational Capital / Multinational Labour -- Reform and Reaction in International Labour Regulation The Maritime Labour Regime -- 4. Appropriation -- Commodity Chains in Marine Life -- Fish that Feed Workers -- One of Life's Little Luxuries -- Theorising Marine Appropriation -- Or Why There Are not Plenty More Fish in the Sea -- Pelagic Imperialism -- The Appropriation of Marine Life before Steam and Oil -- War, Food and Imperialism, 1880s-1940s -- The Globalisation of Industrial Fisheries under the American Pelagic Empire, 1950s-1970s -- The Politics of Property Relations in the Sea, 1980s-2010s -- The Sea, the State and Capital -- 5. Logistics The Value of Logistics: The Annihilation of Time by Sea? -- Maritime Logistics under the Pax Britannica, 1860s-1930s -- Steam, Steel and Cable -- The Logistics of Imperialism -- Capitalist Competition and Liner Shipping -- Tramping and the Deepening of Specialisation in Oceanic Shipping -- Maritime Logistics in Contemporary Globalisation, 1950s-2010s -- The Postwar Shipping Boom -- The Great Shipping Crisis and the Neoliberalisation of Maritime Logistics -- Accumulation, Control and Crisis in Maritime Logistics -- Continuity and Change in Maritime Logistics -- 6. Offshore Maritime Utopias and Insular Infernos -- An Offshore Sublime -- Prisoners of Paradise -- Remnants of Empire -- A Forgotten Space? -- The Offshore Presence -- Conclusion: Terraqueous Horizons -- Notes -- Index
• Publisher Details: La Vergne : Verso
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 551.46; Ocean and civilization; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781784785253; 1784785253
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