Onassis Business History, 1924--1975

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-53988-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 220 mm x 296 mm, Gewicht: 1864 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Maritime History

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 It is based on the newly-formed Onassis Archive comprising thousands of new and unpublished files of his core business.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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Harlaftis, Gelina

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Schifffahrt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Foreword

Anthony S. Papadimitriou

Prologue and Acknowledgements

Gelina Harlaftis

List of Tables

List of Figures, Maps and Images

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Gelina Harlaftis

1 The Onassis Family: Family and Business Network

Gelina Harlaftis

2 The Business Career of Aristotle Onassis, 1924–1975

Gelina Harlaftis

3 Onassis in Argentina (1923–1940): The Shaping of an Entrepreneur

Maria Damilakou

4 The ‘Onassiada’: The Conflict with the Greek Shipowning Establishment

Gelina Harlaftis

5 The Great Innovation: The Offshore Empire

Gelina Harlaftis

6 Onassis’s People: ‘Business Family’, Administration and Management

Gelina Harlaftis

7 Tankers, Oil, and Money: Innovation in Shipbuilding and Finance

Gelina Harlaftis

8 Whaling in the Southern Seas and Antarctica

Lars Scholl

9 ‘Game History’: The Conflict with the United States

Gelina Harlaftis

10 Olympic Airways, 1956–1974, Part 1

Alexandra Papadopoulou

11 OMEGA Industrial Investments SA

Christos Tsakas

12 World-Wide Mobility, Political Networking and Sociability

Gelina Harlaftis

13 After Onassis. The Onassis Shipping Group from 1975 to the Present

Gelina Harlaftis

14 The Archive of the Aristotle Onassis Enterprises: ‘Underway’

Amalia Pappa, Alexandra Papadopoulou and Gelina Harlaftis

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gelina Harlaftis, Director for the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) since 2017, is Professor of Maritime History at the University of Crete. She has published 30 books and 70 articles in maritime, economic, business, diaspora and global history.