Yrjö Kaukiainen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4610169 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yrjö Kaukiainen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yrjö |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaukiainen |
| SIGNATURE | KAUKIAINEN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3257-6712 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
At the Baltic gate
In the late eighteenth century, Copenhagen was the second biggest urban centre in the Baltic Sea area. Its port was both an international terminal and the paramount shipping centre of the Danish–Norwegian monarchy. In the 1750s, over 80 per cent of arriving ships still came from the different parts of the monarchy, but this proportion diminished gradually to two-thirds and, in terms of tonnage, foreign vessels probably accounted for about 60 per …
How do we measure the commodity flows of the Sound Toll records
Werner Scheltjens has estimated the commodity flows through the Sound by converting the original measures of the Sound Toll records into metric tons. The note discusses the merits and problems of this approach. It points out that weight units are not the best parameters from the viewpoint of shipping since the weight of the goods is poorly related to the actual requirement of shipping space
Breaking the ‘Baltic barrier’
The founding of St. Petersburg demonstrates the redistribution of power brought about by the Great Northern War. This new order also had an economic dimension: the city and port aimed to displace the old outlets of Russia's foreign trade. The change, however, was much slower than the traditional historical narrative suggests. Riga's shipping volumes exceeded those of St. Petersburg until the 1780s. In theory, St. Petersburg had huge hinterlands c…
Hanseatic twilight? Lübeck’s shipping networks in the latter half of the eighteenth century
From the late sixteenth century, shipping in the Baltic Sea region experienced profound changes. The rising maritime powers – the Dutch Republic and Great Britain – penetrated the area and the old Hanseatic masters seem to have been relegated to a passive role. These changes are illuminated in the Sound Toll Registers but, in contrast, Baltic archival sources are so fragmentary and imperfect that it is not known how much traditional Baltic shippi…
At the far end of oceanic seaways
Since the late sixteenth century, parallel with the growth of West-European ocean shipping, seaborne connections between the North and Baltic seas increased constantly. The rising maritime powers, the Dutch Republic and Great Britain, carried to the Baltic colonial and manufacturing produce in exchange for grain and raw materials, thus connecting the area with their oceanic trades. These commodity flows are amply illuminated by the Sound Toll rec…
The role of shipping in the ‘second stage of globalisation’
In popular literature, the rapid growth of international trade during the last 50 or 60 years has often been viewed as a direct consequence of shipping technology and the decline of ocean transport costs, but a number of authoritative economists tend to regard certain other variables, such as the general income growth or reductions of customs tariffs, as more plausible explanations. However, typical macroeconomic estimations have a couple of weak…
Overseas Migration And The Development Of Ocean Navigation
Before the nineteenth century, the major seafaring migrants crossing the vast stretches of water were Pacific Islanders who had explored the open ocean in large enough numbers to settle islands all the way across to the Hawaiian Islands (and very likely had reached other sites close to and along the Pacific Coast of the Americas). Transpacific migrations grew from these courageous voyages and those of the various sailors, traders, craftsmen, and …
Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims
Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Ind…
The Container Revolution and Liner Freights
Journey Costs, Terminal Costs and Ocean Tramp Freights
Forum
Shrinking the world
Journal Article Shrinking the world: Improvements in the speed of information transmission, c. 1820–1870 Get access Yrjö Kaukiainen Yrjö Kaukiainen Department of History, PO Box 59 (Unioninkatu 38A), FIN-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar European Review of Economic History, Volume 5, Issue 1, April 2001, Pages 1–28, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1361491601000016 Published: 0…
Tons and Tonnages
Coal and Canvas
A “Minor Player” in World Shipping
The transition from sail to steam in Finnish shipping, 1850–1914
The last days of viable sailing-vessels, up to the 1870s, were a time of prosperity for Finnish shipping. The total tonnage grew considerably, at an average rate of 4-5 per cent per year, and the traffic carried grew still faster.1 During this period, Finland developed into a minor maritime power, and although its tonnage in actual figures could not rival that of Sweden, Germany or the Netherlands — not to speak of Great Britain, France or Norway…
Information, ‘innovation’ and migration
The project ‘Sverige och America efter 1860’ (Sweden and America after 1860), initiated by the historians at Uppsala, has produced a notable body of work in the field of migration. Most of this deals with Swedish migration to America, but after the recent termination of the project attention has turned to the more theoretical consideration of the general problems of migration. This is the approach adopted by two doctoral dissertations which appea…
Finland's peasant seafarers and Stockholm
Sweden and Finland developed strong economic ties during the centuries of their political union, and these showed up most clearly in the relations between south-west Finland and Stockholm, the commercial centre and the greatest town of the realm, commanding a considerable sphere of influence which even extended overseas. In an age when goods could much better be carried by sea than overland, the hinterland of large towns naturally extended a good…
Shrinking the world
Journal Article Shrinking the world: Improvements in the speed of information transmission, c. 1820–1870 Get access Yrjö Kaukiainen Yrjö Kaukiainen Department of History, PO Box 59 (Unioninkatu 38A), FIN-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar European Review of Economic History, Volume 5, Issue 1, April 2001, Pages 1–28, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1361491601000016 Published: 0…
Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims
Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Ind…
The role of shipping in the ‘second stage of globalisation’
In popular literature, the rapid growth of international trade during the last 50 or 60 years has often been viewed as a direct consequence of shipping technology and the decline of ocean transport costs, but a number of authoritative economists tend to regard certain other variables, such as the general income growth or reductions of customs tariffs, as more plausible explanations. However, typical macroeconomic estimations have a couple of weak…
The Container Revolution and Liner Freights
Journey Costs, Terminal Costs and Ocean Tramp Freights
Coal and Canvas
Tons and Tonnages
Finland's peasant seafarers and Stockholm
Sweden and Finland developed strong economic ties during the centuries of their political union, and these showed up most clearly in the relations between south-west Finland and Stockholm, the commercial centre and the greatest town of the realm, commanding a considerable sphere of influence which even extended overseas. In an age when goods could much better be carried by sea than overland, the hinterland of large towns naturally extended a good…
Information, ‘innovation’ and migration
The project ‘Sverige och America efter 1860’ (Sweden and America after 1860), initiated by the historians at Uppsala, has produced a notable body of work in the field of migration. Most of this deals with Swedish migration to America, but after the recent termination of the project attention has turned to the more theoretical consideration of the general problems of migration. This is the approach adopted by two doctoral dissertations which appea…
The transition from sail to steam in Finnish shipping, 1850–1914
The last days of viable sailing-vessels, up to the 1870s, were a time of prosperity for Finnish shipping. The total tonnage grew considerably, at an average rate of 4-5 per cent per year, and the traffic carried grew still faster.1 During this period, Finland developed into a minor maritime power, and although its tonnage in actual figures could not rival that of Sweden, Germany or the Netherlands — not to speak of Great Britain, France or Norway…
A “Minor Player” in World Shipping
Coal and Canvas
Tons and Tonnages
Shrinking the world
Journal Article Shrinking the world: Improvements in the speed of information transmission, c. 1820–1870 Get access Yrjö Kaukiainen Yrjö Kaukiainen Department of History, PO Box 59 (Unioninkatu 38A), FIN-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar European Review of Economic History, Volume 5, Issue 1, April 2001, Pages 1–28, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1361491601000016 Published: 0…
Forum
Journey Costs, Terminal Costs and Ocean Tramp Freights
The Container Revolution and Liner Freights
Overseas Migration And The Development Of Ocean Navigation
Before the nineteenth century, the major seafaring migrants crossing the vast stretches of water were Pacific Islanders who had explored the open ocean in large enough numbers to settle islands all the way across to the Hawaiian Islands (and very likely had reached other sites close to and along the Pacific Coast of the Americas). Transpacific migrations grew from these courageous voyages and those of the various sailors, traders, craftsmen, and …
Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims
Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Ind…
The role of shipping in the ‘second stage of globalisation’
In popular literature, the rapid growth of international trade during the last 50 or 60 years has often been viewed as a direct consequence of shipping technology and the decline of ocean transport costs, but a number of authoritative economists tend to regard certain other variables, such as the general income growth or reductions of customs tariffs, as more plausible explanations. However, typical macroeconomic estimations have a couple of weak…
At the far end of oceanic seaways
Since the late sixteenth century, parallel with the growth of West-European ocean shipping, seaborne connections between the North and Baltic seas increased constantly. The rising maritime powers, the Dutch Republic and Great Britain, carried to the Baltic colonial and manufacturing produce in exchange for grain and raw materials, thus connecting the area with their oceanic trades. These commodity flows are amply illuminated by the Sound Toll rec…
Hanseatic twilight? Lübeck’s shipping networks in the latter half of the eighteenth century
From the late sixteenth century, shipping in the Baltic Sea region experienced profound changes. The rising maritime powers – the Dutch Republic and Great Britain – penetrated the area and the old Hanseatic masters seem to have been relegated to a passive role. These changes are illuminated in the Sound Toll Registers but, in contrast, Baltic archival sources are so fragmentary and imperfect that it is not known how much traditional Baltic shippi…
Breaking the ‘Baltic barrier’
The founding of St. Petersburg demonstrates the redistribution of power brought about by the Great Northern War. This new order also had an economic dimension: the city and port aimed to displace the old outlets of Russia's foreign trade. The change, however, was much slower than the traditional historical narrative suggests. Riga's shipping volumes exceeded those of St. Petersburg until the 1780s. In theory, St. Petersburg had huge hinterlands c…
How do we measure the commodity flows of the Sound Toll records
Werner Scheltjens has estimated the commodity flows through the Sound by converting the original measures of the Sound Toll records into metric tons. The note discusses the merits and problems of this approach. It points out that weight units are not the best parameters from the viewpoint of shipping since the weight of the goods is poorly related to the actual requirement of shipping space
At the Baltic gate
In the late eighteenth century, Copenhagen was the second biggest urban centre in the Baltic Sea area. Its port was both an international terminal and the paramount shipping centre of the Danish–Norwegian monarchy. In the 1750s, over 80 per cent of arriving ships still came from the different parts of the monarchy, but this proportion diminished gradually to two-thirds and, in terms of tonnage, foreign vessels probably accounted for about 60 per …
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