THE TRADE MAKERS: ELDER DEMPSTER IN WEST AFRICA 1852-1972
Written by P.N. Davies
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
in 1973
ISBN: 0043870031
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- TRANSPORT
- MARITIME
- COMPANY HISTORY
- AFRICA
THE TRADE MAKERS: ELDER DEMPSTER IN WEST AFRICA 1852-1972
Written by P.N. Davies.
Stock no. 1823228
1st.
1973.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The growth and changing fortunes of the Elder Dempster shipping company from its origins in the formation of the African Steam Ship Company in 1852 until the present day (1973). Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0043870031. Boards clean. Slight loss to lower corner margin of page 317/318 (printing error). Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned and edge-worn.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE: THE PIONEERS
- 1. Macgregor Laird
- 2. Alexander Elder and John Dempster
- PART TWO: ELDER DEMPSTER AND COMPANY
- 3. Alfred Lewis Jones
- 4. The West African Shipping Conference
- 5. Expansion and Diversification
- 6. The Effects of the Conference System
- PART THREE: ELDER DEMPSTER AND COMPANY LIMITED
- 7. Lord Kylsant
- 8. The Great War
- 9. Reconstruction and Change
- 10. The End of the Royal Mail Group
- PART FOUR: ELDER DEMPSTER LINES LIMITED
- 11. The Reorganisation of the Company
- 12. The Second World War
- 13. Post-War Reconstruction
- 14. Recent Developments
- 15. The Future
- APPENDICES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX