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Shipping in the Port of Sunderland 1815-45: A Counter-Cyclical Trend

Category: Ionian History
Type: Article
Book Title: Η ασφάλιση των γαλαξειδιώτικων πλοίων
Author: Ville Simon
Editor: Kiraly K. Bela
Journal: Business History
Pages: 32-51
Issue: 1
Volume: 32
Library catalog: Wilson Library, University of Minnesota
Date: January 1990
Language: English

Abstract:

[32] This paper seeks to explain why the port of Sunderland ran contrary to the general picture of depression experienced by much of the English shipping industry in the several decades after the end of the French Wars in 1815. The wartime prosperity of the shipping industry, based upon high freight rates and profits, gave way to a deep and prolonged depression which afflicted much of the industry, with the only termporary interruptions, for several decades. ...


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