Table of Contents

pp vi-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-xi

Foreword

pp xii-xiii

Introduction (Second Edition)

pp xiv-xvii

Foreword

pp xviii-xix

Preface

pp xx-xxiv

Acknowledgments

pp xxv-xxv

Introduction to the Original Edition

pp xxvi-xxxvii

Frontispiece

pp xxxviii-xxxix

Part One - The Pioneers

pp xl-xli

1 - Macgregor Laird

pp 1-18

2 - Alexander Elder and John Dempster

pp 19-36

Part Two - Elder Dempster And Company

pp 37-37

3 - Alfred Lewis Jones

pp 37-56

4 - The West African Shipping Conference

pp 57-78

5 - Expansion and Diversification

pp 79-108

6 - The Effects of the Conference System

pp 109-129

Part Three - Elder Dempster And Company Limited

pp 130-130

7 - Lord Kylsant

pp 131-150

8 - The Great War

pp 151-172

9 - Reconstruction and Change

pp 173-196

10 - The End of the Royal Mail Group

pp 197-227

Part Four - Elder Demster Lines Limited

pp 228-228

11 - The Reorganisation of the Company

pp 229-254

12 - The Second World War

pp 255-272

13 - Post-War Reconstruction

pp 273-296

14 - Recent Developments

pp 297-338

15 - The Future

pp 339-352

Part Five - The End Of An Era

pp 353-353