The Evolution of Portuguese Fisheries in The Medieval and Early Modern Period. A Fiscal Debate

• Tipo: Capítulo ou Parte de Livro
• Data: 2009

Autores

Inês Amorim (Autor) FLUP

Livro

Título: Beyond the Catch. Fisheries of the North Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic, 900-1850

1º Edição

Páginas: 245-279

ISBN: 978 90 04 1697

Editora: Brill

Indexação

Scopus

Classificação Científica

FOS: Humanidades > História e arqueologia

CORDIS: Ciências Naturais > Ciências do ambiente > Gestão dos recursos naturais ; Humanidades > História

Outras Informações

Abstract (EN): This paper sets out to analyze the fisheries sector in Portugal in the mediaeval and modern periods, using essentially fiscal indicators. There are three reasons for this approach: the legal concept of ownership of the seas and rivers that put the king in exclusive possession of them, under which system he received taxes resulting from their exploitation or alienation; the kind of historical papers that document this taxation, which took various forms; the need to reappraise the historiographic interpretation of the evolution of the Portuguese fisheries, patent in the illuminist discourse of the mid-18th century, which holds that the excessive fiscal burden on fishing and fishermen was the cause of an economic crisis in the sector

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica