Creating Global Shipping - Aristotle Onassis, Vagliano Brothers, Business of Shipping, C.1820

Shipping has been a leading sector in European economic growth for centuries. Yet, it rarely features in business or economic history. This history of shipping in Greece, which centers on the Vagliano brothers and Aristotle Onassis, redresses this by making this invisible global business visible.

List of contents

1. The European and Greek shipping firm; 2. The Vagliano shipmasters: creating a business empire, 1820s-1850s; 3. An international trading house from Russia to the United Kingdom, 1850s-1880s; 4. The Russian government vs. Mari Vagliano, 1881-1887; 5. The Vagliano fleet and innovation in ship management; 6. Merchant to shipowner: Onassis from Buenos Aires to London and New York, 1923-1946; 7. The Onassis fleet, 1946-1975; 8. The United States government vs. Aristotle Onassis, 1951-1958; 9. Innovation in global shipping: the Onassis business; 10. Diachronic presence: an epilogue.

About the author

Gelina Harlaftis is the director of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) in Crete, and is professor of maritime history at the Ionian University, Corfu. She was President of the International Maritime Economic History Αssociation, visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and an Alfred D. Chandler, Jr, International Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Business School. She has published many books, including Corsairs and Pirates in the Eastern Mediterranean, Fifteenth–Nineteenth Centuries (2016) a collection coedited with Dimitris Dimitropoulos and David J. Starkey.

Summary

Shipping has been a leading sector in European economic growth for centuries. Yet, it rarely features in business or economic history. This history of shipping in Greece, which centers on the Vagliano brothers and Aristotle Onassis, redresses this by making this invisible global business visible.

Foreword

This study of shipping makes visible a sector that has led European economic growth for centuries, yet rarely appears in business or economic histories.

Product details

• Authors: Gelina Harlaftis
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781108466783
• ISBN: 978-1-108-46678-3
• No. of pages: 399
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Europe, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Greece, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, maritime history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, International business, Transport industries, Modern Greek, Oceans and seas, Oceans & seas, Shipping industries, Shipping; business; global; evolution; maritime; tradition