The Urban Logistic Network: Cities, Transport and Distribution in Europe from the Middle Ages to Modern Times - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3030276015 ISBN 13 : 9783030276010

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Synopsis

This edited collection examines the formation of urban networks and role of gateways in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern world. In the past, gateway cities were merely perceived as transport points, only relevant to maritime shipping. Today they are seen as the organic entities coordinating the allocation of resources and supporting the growth, efficiency and sustainability of logistics (including both the transport and distribution of goods and services). Using different historical case studies, the authors consider how logistics shaped urban networks and were shaped by them.

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À propos de l'auteur

Giovanni Favero is Professor of Economic History at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy, in the Department of Management. In 2018-19 he was the Thomas K. McCraw Visiting Fellow in US Business History at Harvard Business School. He works on organisational history in a long term perspective.

Michael-W. Serruys is a Marie Sklodowska Curie Action Fellow at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale in Brest, France. In recent years his main focus lay on 18^th century Belgian economic, maritime and transport history. As a MSCA Fellow he now researches the societal effects of environmental crisis, like the shipworm epidemic in 18^th century Western Europe.

Miki Sugiura is Professor of Global Economic History at the Faculty of Economics of Hosei University, Japan. Currently (2018-2020) she is Visiting Professor of Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick. Her research interests include historyof distribution and trade organizations, urban formation and women's property formation. She also has published recently multiple articles and books on circulations and recycling of textile products.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3030276015
• ISBN 13: 9783030276010
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Éditeur: Favero Giovanni, Serruys Michael-W., Sugiura Miki
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