Fuelling the World Economy

Daniel Castillo Hidalgo is Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, and is widely published on economic and maritime history. He is editor of African Seaports and Maritime Economics in Historical Perspective.Cezar Honorato is Full Professor of Social and Economic History at the University Federal Fluminense, Brazil. He is author of books, chapter in books, and articles in journals of maritime, economic, social, transport and Latin America history.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Use of Coal in Maritime Transport and Maritime Station Networks: Routes, Stores and Companies, circa 1850-1930.- Chapter 3. Bunkering in West Africa: The Case of Dakar.- Chapter 4. The Rhenish-Westphalian Coal Syndicate and the German Bunker Coal Business, 1905 to 1947.- Chapter 5. Common Destines: French Trading Ports and Oil in the Twentieth Century, 1914-1965.- Chapter 6. French Capital, Gdynia, and the Position of Polish Coal on International Markets in the Interwar Period.- 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.- Chapter 8. The Economics of Mineral Coal in Brazil, 1850-1889.