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Index
Cover Page
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Terraqueous Predicament
Temporalities
Spatialities
Lives
1. Circulation
‘Expediting of the Affair of Negoce’: The Maritime Factor in Capitalism
Networks of Commodity Exchange
Calculations of Risk, Casualties of Credit
Market Integration through the Sea
Capitalism, Circulation and Production
The Commercialisation Model and Its Critics
Circulation and the Maritime Frontier
2. Order
A Nomos of the Sea
Freedom of the Seas
The Globalisation of Navalism
Command of the Commons
Stocks and Flows: Piracy and Disputed Sovereignty in the Contemporary Maritime Order
3. Exploitation
Maritime Labour Regimes under the Pax Britannica
Globalising Capital and Cosmopolitan Labour
Discipline and Punish: ‘The Special Circumstances of a Ship at Sea’
Radical Resistance, Liberal Reform
Maritime Labour Regimes in the Neoliberal Era
Changing Conditions of Work
Transnational Capital / Multinational Labour
Reform and Reaction in International Labour Regulation
The Maritime Labour Regime
4. Appropriation
Commodity Chains in Marine Life
Fish that Feed Workers
One of Life’s Little Luxuries
Theorising Marine Appropriation – Or Why There Are not Plenty More Fish in the Sea
Pelagic Imperialism
The Appropriation of Marine Life before Steam and Oil
War, Food and Imperialism, 1880s–1940s
The Globalisation of Industrial Fisheries under the American Pelagic Empire, 1950s–1970s
The Politics of Property Relations in the Sea, 1980s–2010s
The Sea, the State and Capital
5. Logistics
The Value of Logistics: The Annihilation of Time by Sea?
Maritime Logistics under the Pax Britannica, 1860s–1930s
Steam, Steel and Cable
The Logistics of Imperialism
Capitalist Competition and Liner Shipping
Tramping and the Deepening of Specialisation in Oceanic Shipping
Maritime Logistics in Contemporary Globalisation, 1950s–2010s
The Postwar Shipping Boom
The Great Shipping Crisis and the Neoliberalisation of Maritime Logistics
Accumulation, Control and Crisis in Maritime Logistics
Continuity and Change in Maritime Logistics
6. Offshore
Maritime Utopias and Insular Infernos
An Offshore Sublime
Prisoners of Paradise
Remnants of Empire
A Forgotten Space?
The Offshore Presence
Conclusion: Terraqueous Horizons
Notes
Index
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