Onassis Business History: 1924-1975 (Brill's Studies in Maritime History, 16)

Aristotle Onassis is the most famous shipowner of the twentieth century. This book, based on the newly-formed Onassis Archive of thousands of new and unpublished files of his core business, gives a new account of all his activities in the shipping, airline and oil industry. Contents 6 Foreword 8 Prologue and Acknowledgements 10 Tables 12 Figures, Maps and Images 13 Abbreviations 17 Notes on Contributors 18 Introduction 20 Chapter 1 The Onassis Family: Family and Business Network 25 Chapter 2 The Business Career of Aristotle Onassis, 1924–1975 45 Chapter 3 Onassis in Argentina, 1923–1940: The Shaping of an Entrepreneur 75 Chapter 4 The ‘Onassiada’: The Conflict with the Greek Shipowning Establishment 93 Chapter 5 The Great Innovation: The Offshore Empire 113 Chapter 6 Onassis’s People: ‘Business Family’, Administration and Management 136 Chapter 7 Tankers, Oil, and Money: Innovation in Shipbuilding and Finance 161 Chapter 8 Whaling in the Southern Seas and Antarctica 185 Chapter 9 ‘Game History’: The Conflict with the United States 211 Chapter 10 Olympic Airways, 1956–1974 228 Chapter 11 OMEGA Industrial Investments SA 278 Chapter 12 Worldwide Mobility, Political Networking and Sociability 293 Chapter 13 After Onassis. The Onassis Shipping Group from 1975 to the Present 341 Chapter 14 The Archive of the Aristotle Onassis Enterprises: ‘Underway’ 350 Appendix 1: Family Tree of the Onassis Family 361 Appendix 2: The Companies of Aristotle Onassis, 1924–1975 368 Appendix 3: The Fleet of Aristotle Onassis 391 Appendix 4.1: Classification Scheme of the Onassis Archive, 1898–2019 406 Appendix 4.2: Fields of Description of the Archive 409 Bibliography 410 Index 419