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Sail and steam, selected maritime writings of Yrjö Kaukiainen, compiled by Lars U. Scholl and Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen

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Sail and steam, selected maritime writings of Yrjö Kaukiainen, compiled by Lars U. Scholl and Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266)

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Sail and steam

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bibliography

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57350678

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compiled by Lars U. Scholl and Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen

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Research in maritime history, no. 27

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selected maritime writings of Yrjö Kaukiainen

Table Of Contents

Yrjö Kaukiainen: a tribute on the occasion of his forthcoming retirement as professor of maritime history at the University of Helsinki / by Lars U. Scholl -- Yrjö Kaukiainen: a man of the sea / by Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen -- Yrjö Kaukiainen and the development of maritime economic history / by Lewis R. Fischer -- Finnish sailors, 1750-1870 -- Finnish and international maritime labour in the age of sail: was there a market? -- Five years before the mast: observations on the conditions of maritime labour in Finland and elsewhere -- The maritime labour market: skill and experience as factors of demand and supply -- Owners and masters: management and managerial skills in the Finnish ocean-going merchant fleet, c. 1840-1880 -- From low-cost to high-cost shipping: Finnish maritime labour costs after the Second World War -- The modernization of Finnish coastal shipping and railway competition c. 1830-1913 -- British timber imports and Finnish shipping 1860-1910 -- Baltic timber-trade under sail: an example of the persistence of old techniques -- Coal and canvas: aspects of the competition between steam and sail, c. 1870-1914 -- Dutch shipping and the Swedish Navigation Act (1724). A case study -- Seamen ashore: port visits of late nineteenth-century Finnish sailors -- Wreck-plundering by east Finish coastal people: criminal tradition or popular culture? -- From days and knots to pounds and dollars: some problems in the study of the economics of late nineteenth century merchant shipping -- Tons and tonnages: ship measurement and shipping statistics, c. 1870-1980 -- International freight markets in the 1830s and 1840s: the experience of a major Finnish shipowner -- Shrinking the world: improvements in the speed of information transmission, c. 1820-1870 -- Yrjö Kaukiainen: a maritime bibliography / by Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen

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