British mail steamers to South America, 1851-1965 a history of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and Royal Mail Lines
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Burlington
Ashgate
2014
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| Schriftenreihe: | Modern economic and social history series
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-1046 DE-1047 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Series editor's foreword
- Author preface
- List of tables & illustrations
- 1840. The West Indies mail contract
- 1851. Across the South Atlantic
- A decade of contrasting fortunes
- The second epoch
- Difficult trading conditions
- A period of uncertainty
- Focus on South America
- World War One and the aftermath
- Post-war downturn and collapse
- Royal Mail Lines, Ltd
- The war years, 1939-1945
- Strong recovery
- The end of the line
- Bibliography
- Fleet list
- Index
- During the nineteenth century the British government and the Admiralty provided large subsidies to commercial companies to run international mail services. Concentrating on the service between Britain and South America, this book explores the economic, maritime and political aspects of the Royal Mail Lines company, which held contracts between 1851 and 1965, and reveals the impacts that a long-distance mail service had upon travel, trade, commerce and the changing patterns of global information exchange