Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Figures, Maps, Charts and Tables -- Appendices -- List of Contributors -- Introduction / Apostolos Delis -- Chapter 1 The Impact of Mechanisation on Spanish Maritime Labour (1834–1914): From Seamen to Sea Workers / Enric García-Domingo -- Chapter 2 The Evolution of Maritime Labour in Italy in the Age of Transition: 1880–1920 / Luca Lo Basso -- Chapter 3 Aspects of Maritime Labour and Employment in the Greek Sailing and Steam-Powered Fleet, 1840–1914 / Alkiviadis Kapokakis -- Chapter 4 Between Maritime Labour and Social Security in the Kingdom of Italy / Andrea Zappia -- Chapter 5 Dock Workers and Employers in Loading and Unloading in the Port of Barcelona after the End of the Guild System, 1850–90 / Jordi Ibarz -- Chapter 6 Associationism and Labour Conflicts in Fishing in Eastern Spain during the Transition from Sail to Motor (1864–1923) / Daniel Muntané -- Chapter 7 The Metamorphosis of Barceloneta: The Effects of Industrialisation and Liberalism on the Maritime District of Barcelona / Eduard Page Campos -- Chapter 8 The Port of La Ciotat and Its Maritime Community towards Industrialisation (1836–1916) / Kalliopi Vasilaki -- Chapter 9 Camogli as a Maritime Community in the Age of Transition (1850s–1914) / Leonardo Scavino -- Chapter 10 From Traditional Maritime Communities to Maritime Centres. Urbanization, Social Hierarchies and the Labour Market in the Age of Steam / Katerina Galani -- Chapter 11 The Ottoman Port of Chania during the Transition from Sail to Steam / Petros Kastrinakis -- Chapter 12 Ship Operation in Transition: Greek Cargo Sailing Ships and Steamers, 1860s–1910s / Apostolos Delis -- Chapter 13 Navigating in the Age of Transition: A Voyage Analysis of Greek Sailing Ships and Steamers 1860s–1920s / Apostolos Delis -- Chapter 14 Modernizing Seaborne Communication in Nineteenth-Century Greece / Apostolos Delis -- Chapter 15 Steamers for the Empire: Austrian Lloyd and the Transition from Sail to Steam in the Austrian Merchant Marine (1836–1914) / Matteo Barbano -- Chapter 16 The Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company: The Transition from Sail to Steam in the Russian Black Sea (1856–1914) / Anna Sydorenko -- Chapter 17 Building and Exploring a Semantic Network of Maritime History Data / Pavlos Fafalios -- Conclusions / Apostolos Delis -- Bibliography -- Index.

This volume discusses the effects of industrialization on maritime trade, labour and communities in the Mediterranean and Black Sea from the 1850s to the 1920s. The 17 essays are based on new evidence from multiple type of primary sources on the transition from sail to steam navigation, written in a variety of languages, Italian, Spanish, French, Greek, Russian and Ottoman. Questions that arise in the book include the labour conditions, wages, career and retirement of seafarers, the socio-economic and spatial transformations of the maritime communities and the changes in the patterns of operation, ownership and management in the shipping industry with the advent of steam navigation. The book offers a comparative analysis of the above subjects across the Mediterranean, while also proposes unexplored themes in current scholarship like the history of navigation. Contributors are: Luca Lo Basso, Andrea Zappia, Leonardo Scavino, Daniel Muntane, Eduard Page Campos, Enric Garcia Domingo, Katerina Galani, Alkiviadis Kapokakis, Petros Kastrinakis, Kalliopi Vasilaki, Pavlos Fafalios, Georgios Samaritakis, Kostas Petrakis, Korina Doerr, Athina Kritsotaki, Anastasia Axaridou, and Martin Doerr.

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