Portuguese free ports in the turning of the 18th century . A strategy to promote unimportant ports

• Tipo: Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional
• Data: 2006

Autores

Inês Amorim (Autor) FLUP

Revista

Título: International Journal of Maritime History

Vol. 18 Nº 1

Páginas: 103-128

ISSN: 0843-8714

Editora: SAGE

Classificação Científica

FOS: Humanidades > História e arqueologia

CORDIS: Humanidades > História ; Ciências Tecnológicas > Engenharia > Engenharia marítima ; Humanidades > História > História económica

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Abstract (EN): This paper try to discuss what is the pertinence of studying a small Portuguese port like Aveiro, adopting a methodology proposed by Gordon Jackson, who proposes lines of research around the study of the “status of small ports”. This justifies a microanalysis of a minor port’s strategic contribution to the progressive construction of an economic space, whether local, national or international. In this essay we will therefore examine the importance of the port’s hinterland in the context of the national and regional economy); assess the justification for investments in harbour engineering and docks works, and evaluate the importance of the creation of ideological guidelines which promoted the free free port as an agent for the rise of Aveiro and other small Portuguese ports.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica