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Marrying the Orient and the Occident: Shipping and Commerce between France and Algeria, 1830-1914

Perry, John H.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1321838904

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2011, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, History.
Steam technology radically transformed world shipping in the nineteenth century. Shipping lines established fast and predictable schedules that linked the far reaches of the world to Europe. These sea routes also went hand-in-hand with European imperial expansion; regular, reliable communications between colony and mother country cemented imperial control. To analyze these links, I explore the establishment and operation of shipping lines between France and its most prized colony, Algeria, between 1830 and 1914. The French state fostered this trade through generous subsidies, eventually declaring a monopoly on Franco-Algerian trade in 1889. Far from being a simple story of the French state playing a large role in the affairs of private enterprise, I examine the tensions between political and economic motives to justify these steamship services. These tensions underlying the justifications of linking France and its empire with French ships reveal that the day-to-day operations of these shipping lines were more complex, and more fraught, than previously imagined.
Alice Conklin, PhD (Advisor)
Christopher Otter, PhD (Advisor)
David Hoffmann, PhD (Advisor)
68 p.
History
France; Algeria; Shiping; Commerce; Technology; Imperialism; Colonialism

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  • Perry, J. H. (2011). Marrying the Orient and the Occident: Shipping and Commerce between France and Algeria, 1830-1914 [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1321838904

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Perry, John. Marrying the Orient and the Occident: Shipping and Commerce between France and Algeria, 1830-1914. 2011. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1321838904.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Perry, John. "Marrying the Orient and the Occident: Shipping and Commerce between France and Algeria, 1830-1914." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1321838904

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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