Empty Vessel
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'Thrilling, meticulous and wondrously original' PHILIPPE SANDSA
jaw-dropping microhistory of the global economy over the last fifty
years told through the many lives of a single ship.At 94 meters
long and 9,500 deadweight tonnes, once called the Bibby Resolution,
is an unremarkable hulk, crossing the oceans unnoticed. And yet,
the astonishing journey of this boat can tell us the story of the
modern world.First built as a Swedish offshore oil rig in the
1970s, it went on to become a barracks for British soldiers in the
Falklands War in the 1980s, a jail off New York in the 1990s, a
prison in Portland in the 2000s, and accommodation for Nigerian oil
workers off the coast of Africa in the 2010s. It has been called
Safe Esperia, HMP The Weare, even 'The Love Boat'.In each of its
lives this empty vessel has been commanded by economic forces much
larger than itself: private investment, war, mass incarceration,
imperial interests, national sovereignty, inflation, booms, busts
and greed.Through its encounters with a world of island tax havens,
the English court system, exploited labour forces, free banking
zones or immigration politics, the ordinary boat at the heart of
this story reveals our complex modern economy to us, connecting the
dots of a dramatically changing world in the making, and warning us
of its dangerous consequences.
Výber kníh autorov
John Murray Press ,
Ian Kumekawa
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John Murray Press,
Ian Kumekawa
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Slovart
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