Fuelling the World Economy: Seaports, Coal, and Oil Markets

Preface and Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Structure of the Book
	References
Chapter 2: The Use of Coal in Maritime Transport and Maritime Station Networks: Routes, Stores and Companies, Circa 1850–1930
	Introduction
	Capitalist Expansion and the Production and Supply of Coal
	Shipping Routes During the Age of Coal
	Stations and the Price of Coal Supplies
	Conclusions
	Appendix 2.1: The Price of Coal at the Main Stations in 1912
	Appendix 2.2: The Price of Coal and Freight in the Canary Islands Ports, 1891–1933
	References
Chapter 3: Bunkering in West Africa: The Case of Dakar
	Introduction
	The Structure of the Coaling Market in West Africa, 1880–1914
	The Evolution of the Coaling Business in Dakar
	World War I and the Bunkering Sector in Dakar
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 4: The Rhenish-Westphalian Coal Syndicate and the German Bunker Coal Business, 1905–1947
	Introduction
	RWKS and DKD Between 1905 and 1913–1923
	The End of Exclusivity: The DKD from 1923 to 1945
	DKD and RWKS i.L. from 1945 Until 1947
	Conclusion
	References
		Archival References
Chapter 5: Common Destines: French Trading Ports and Oil in the Twentieth Century, 1914–1965
	Introduction
	Lessons from World War I
	Seaports as Favourite Sites
	An Increasing Role of Oil in the Economy of French Ports
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6: French Capital, Gdynia, and the Position of Polish Coal on International Markets in the Interwar Period
	Introduction: Interwar Poland as a Coal Producer and Exporter
	The Geography and Economics of Polish Coal Exports
	Polish Infrastructure and French Capital
	French Companies in the Polish Coal Sector
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 7: Ports, Coal, and Exports from the Argentine Pampas Region: An Evaluation of the Institutional Actors Related to Coal Circulation in the Agro-Export Period, 1860–1930
	Introduction
	Regional Port Cities: Actors in International Relations
	Buenos Aires and Coal
	The Configuration of the Iron Roads in the Hinterlands
	Neural Points of the Rioplatense Railway-Port Complex
	A Port for the Capital of the Province of Buenos Aires
	The Supply of Coal in the Heart of the Pampa gringa
	Urban Cultural Footprints
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 8: The Coal Economy in Brazil (1850–1889)
	Introduction
	Brazil into the World Market
	Energy Dependence: Coal in the Empire of Brazil
	The Question of Coal Consumption
	The Leading Companies of the Coal Economy in Brazil
	Conclusion
	Appendix 8.1: Main Products in the Import and Export Basket of the Empire of Brazil, 1850–1851, 1870–1871, 1890
	Appendix 8.2: Main Steam Navigation Companies Subsidized by the Brazilian State in the Nineteenth Century
	References
Index