Peter Davies (economic historian)

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Professor Peter N. Davies is a British economic historian with interests in the port of Liverpool, sea-based trade with West Africa, the Canary Islands and Japan, the international fruit trade and the military history of the River Kwai campaign in World War II. He is now an Emeritus Professor in the School of History at the University of Liverpool, England.

Professor Davies is the author of several books including, "The Trade Makers, Elder Dempster in West Africa" (Allen and Unwin, 1973), "Trading in West Africa" (Croom Helm, 1976), "Sir Alfred Jones: Shipping Entrepreneur par Excellence" (Europa, 1978), "Fyffes and the Banana, Musa Sapientum" (Athlone Press, 1990), "Japanese Shipping and Shipbuilding Industries: A History of Their Modern Growth" (with T.Chida, Athlone Press, 1990), "The Man Behind the Bridge: Colonel Toosey and the River Kwai" (Athlone Press, 1991), and "From Orchard to Market" (with D.Hope-Mason, Lockwood Press, 2005).

During a long career at the University of Liverpool, Davies has continued the tradition of commitment to Maritime History which had been initiated by Professor Francis Hyde and maintained by John Harris (subsequently Professor of Economic History at the University of Birmingham) and Dr Sheila Marriner. Taken together, Hyde, Harris, Marriner and Davies have become known as the "Liverpool School of Maritime Historians" [1,2]

1 ^Davies PN, "The Liverpool School of Maritime History". International Journal of Maritime History (2005);XVII, 2 pp249-260.

2 ^Milne G, "Trade and Traders in Mid-Victorian Liverpool: Mercantile Business and the Making of a World Port" (Liverpool University Press, 2000) pp 5-6.