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Winner of the John R. Lyman Book Award in Maritime and Naval Biography and Autobiography (2024).
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 It is based on the newly-formed Onassis Archive comprising thousands of new and unpublished files of his core business.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.
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 It is based on the newly-formed Onassis Archive comprising thousands of new and unpublished files of his core business.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.
Price: $227.00
Pages: 416
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in Maritime History
Publication Date:
30 November 2023
ISBN: 9789004539884
Format: Other
"Onassis Business History sheds important light on innovations in maritime management in the middle portion of the twentieth
century, and it is lively enough to absorb even readers who have no particular interest in the colourful life and tumultuous times of famed tanker magnate Aristotle Onassis. (...) This is an outstanding piece of work, and it deserves attention." – Marc Levinson, in: International Journal of Maritime History (2025), pp. 1–3.
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.