Onassis Business History 1924 1975

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Publisher : Brill's Studies in Maritime Hi
ISBN 13 : 9789004539884
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Onassis Business History, 1924--1975 written by and published by Brill's Studies in Maritime Hi. This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle Onassis is the most famous shipowner of the twentieth century. This book, based on the newly-formed Onassis Archive of thousands of new and unpublished files of his core business, gives a new account of all his activities in the shipping, airline and oil industry.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004539891
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Onassis Business History, 1924—1975 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle Onassis was the most famous shipowner of the twentieth century. He became the archetype and image of the ship-owning magnate, the symbol of Greek enterprise on a global scale. What distinguished him from the rest was that he created the shipping business of the new global era, combining the European maritime tradition and the American institutions and resources. Almost all books written on Onassis focus on his lifestyle and personal life. This is the first book examining all aspects of his multi-faceted global business activities in the shipping, airline and oil industries. It is based on the newly-formed Onassis Archive comprising thousands of new and unpublished files of his core business. Contributors are: Alexandra Papadopoulou, Amalia Pappa, Maria Damilakou, Lars Scholl, and Christos Tsakas.

Author : Gelina Harlaftis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108475396
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating Global Shipping written by Gelina Harlaftis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of shipping makes visible a sector that has led European economic growth for centuries, yet rarely appears in business or economic histories.

Author : Mark Mazower
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143110934
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greek Revolution written by Mark Mazower and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize • One of The Economist's top history books of the year From one of our leading historians, an important new history of the Greek War of Independence—the ultimate worldwide liberal cause célèbre of the age of Byron, Europe’s first nationalist uprising, and the beginning of the downward spiral of the Ottoman Empire—published two hundred years after its outbreak As Mark Mazower shows us in his enthralling and definitive new account, myths about the Greek War of Independence outpaced the facts from the very beginning, and for good reason. This was an unlikely cause, against long odds, a disorganized collection of Greek patriots up against what was still one of the most storied empires in the world, the Ottomans. The revolutionaries needed all the help they could get. And they got it as Europeans and Americans embraced the idea that the heirs to ancient Greece, the wellspring of Western civilization, were fighting for their freedom against the proverbial Eastern despot, the Turkish sultan. This was Christianity versus Islam, now given urgency by new ideas about the nation-state and democracy that were shaking up the old order. Lord Byron is only the most famous of the combatants who went to Greece to fight and die—along with many more who followed events passionately and supported the cause through art, music, and humanitarian aid. To many who did go, it was a rude awakening to find that the Greeks were a far cry from their illustrious forebears, and were often hard to tell apart from the Ottomans. Mazower does full justice to the realities on the ground as a revolutionary conspiracy triggered outright rebellion, and a fraying and distracted Ottoman leadership first missed the plot and then overreacted disastrously. He shows how and why ethnic cleansing commenced almost immediately on both sides. By the time the dust settled, Greece was free, and Europe was changed forever. It was a victory for a completely new kind of politics—international in its range and affiliations, popular in its origins, romantic in sentiment, and radical in its goals. It was here on the very edge of Europe that the first successful revolution took place in which a people claimed liberty for themselves and overthrew an entire empire to attain it, transforming diplomatic norms and the direction of European politics forever, and inaugurating a new world of nation-states, the world in which we still live.

Author : Michael Llewellyn-Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197651100
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venizelos written by Michael Llewellyn-Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-01 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936) was the outstanding Greek statesman of the first half of the twentieth century. Michael Llewellyn-Smith traces his early years, political apprenticeship in Crete, and energetic role in that island's emancipation from both Ottoman rule and the arbitrary rule of Prince George of Greece. Summoned to Athens in 1910 by a cabal of officers, Venizelos mastered the Greek political scene, sent the military back to barracks, and led the country through a glorious period of constitutional and political reform, ending in a Balkan alliance waging successful war against Ottoman rule in Europe. By 1914, Greece had doubled in territory and population, and was about to face the challenges of European war. Tensions were rising between the king and the prime minister, foreshadowing political schism. This book illuminates Venizelos' political mastery, liberalism and nationalism, and traces his fateful friendship with David Lloyd George. A second volume will complete his story, with the Great War, the post-war peace settlement, Greece's Asia Minor disaster, and Venizelos' late years of renewed prime ministerial office, political polarization and exile in Paris.

Author : Armand Marie Leroi
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 0143127985
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lagoon written by Armand Marie Leroi and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Lagoon, acclaimed biologist Armand Marie Leroi recovers Aristotle's science. He revisits Aristotle's writings and the places where he worked. He goes to the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos to see the creatures that Aristotle saw, where he saw them. He explores Aristotle's observations, his deep ideas, his inspired guesses--and the things he got wildly wrong. He shows how Aristotle's science is deeply intertwined with his philosophical system and reveals that he was not only the first biologist, but also one of the greatest.

Author : Ian Collins
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300276052
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Craxton written by Ian Collins and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uplifting and engaging, this story recounts the life and career of a rebellious 20th-century British artist Born into a large, musical, and bohemian family in London, the British artist John Craxton (1922–2009) has been described as a Neo-Romantic, but he called himself a “kind of Arcadian”. His early art was influenced by Blake, Palmer, Miró, and Picasso. After achieving a dream of moving to Greece, his work evolved as a personal response to Byzantine mosaics, El Greco, and the art of Greek life. This book tells his adventurous story for the first time. At turns exciting, funny, and poignant, the saga is enlivened by Craxton’s ebullient pictures. Ian Collins expands our understanding of the artist greatly—including an in-depth exploration of the storied, complicated friendship between Craxton and Lucian Freud, drawing on letters and memories that Craxton wanted to remain private until after his death.

Author : R. J. Macrides
Publisher : Centre for Advanced Historical Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scottish Connection in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies written by R. J. Macrides and published by Centre for Advanced Historical Studies. This book was released on 1992 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roderick Beaton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022680979X
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greece written by Roderick Beaton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many, “Greece” is synonymous with “ancient Greece,” the civilization that gave us much that defines Western culture today. But, how did Greece come to be so powerfully attached to the legacy of the ancients in the first place and then define an identity for itself that is at once Greek and modern? This book reveals the remarkable achievement, during the last three hundred years, of building a modern nation on the ruins of a vanished civilization—sometimes literally so. This is the story of the Greek nation-state but also, and more fundamentally, of the collective identity that goes with it. It is not only a history of events and high politics; it is also a history of culture, of the arts, of people, and of ideas. Opening with the birth of the Greek nation-state, which emerged from encounters between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire, Roderick Beaton carries his story into the present moment and Greece’s contentious post-recession relationship with the rest of the European Union. Through close examination of how Greeks have understood their shared identity, Beaton reveals a centuries-old tension over the Greek sense of self. How does Greece illuminate the difference between a geographically bounded state and the shared history and culture that make up a nation? A magisterial look at the development of a national identity through history, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation is singular in its approach. By treating modern Greece as a biographical subject, a living entity in its own right, Beaton encourages us to take a fresh look at a people and culture long celebrated for their past, even as they strive to build a future as part of the modern West.

Author : Alan Branch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134742673
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maritime Economics written by Alan Branch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition Maritime Economics provides a valuable introduction to the organisation and workings of the global shipping industry. The author outlines the economic theory as well as many of the operational practicalities involved. Extensively revised for the new edition, the book has many clear illustrations and tables. Topics covered include: * an overview of international trade * Maritime Law * economic organisation and principles * financing ships and shipping companies * market research and forecasting.