By Patrick O'Flanagan
Charting the evolution of the seaports of Atlantic Spain and Portugal over 4 centuries, this booklet examines the usually dynamic interplay among the massive privileged ports of Lisbon, Seville and Cadiz (the Metropoles) and the smaller ports of, between others, Porto, Galicia and Santander (the moment Tier). With the long term privileging and monopolies of the bigger ports in decline, a brand new period of great financial and entrepreneurial dynamism ensued for the coastal provinces of either countries.Professor O'Flanagan employs a wealth of resource fabric to supply a multi-faceted survey of the expansion of those port towns, relocating deftly among neighborhood matters to neighborhood advancements and worldwide relationships. in addition to Spain and Portugal, Professor O'Flanagan additionally considers the real position performed through the Atlantic archepelagos of The Canaries, the Azores and Medeira.This ambitious learn could be a vital addition to the library of these learning Atlantic Iberia, ancient geography, and transatlantic monetary relationships of this era.
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1993, p. 520). They emerged in conditions of existing sophisticated lifestyles, especially in Asia (Ross and Telkamp, 1985). It is questionable whether this type of city evolved in Ibero-America or in Africa outside centres dominated by Arabs or Indo-Persians. These cities were also large and dynamic and were not, as Braudel has asserted, ‘parasitic, soft and luxurious’ (1972, p. 4). In many south-east Asian areas during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, more than 10 per cent of the pre-industrial population was urbanised, which was more than in contemporary Europe (Basu, 1979).
A section addresses the evolution of shipping technology in its widest remit. A gazetteer of the principal ports follows providing information relating especially to cartographic sources available for a range of major ports on the peninsula. Each of the selected brief port studies is accompanied by a short summary of the principal stages of structural development. There are also the useful published proceedings of a 1995 conference held in Madrid (Guimerá and Romero, 1996). At this stage, it may be possible to draw some general inferences relating to the focus and contents of recent comparative studies of Iberian urbanisation.
There have been few attempts to assemble carto-bibliographies of individual port settlements, although there are some exceptions (Calderón Quijano, 1978). Comparative studies of urban functional change are relatively uncommon, as is work on urban iconography (Bonet Correa, 1978). Finally, studies of the archival material relating to the mid-eighteenth century Catastro del Marqués de Ensenada for some ports relating to the Respuestas Generales have also been published in a series known as Alcábala del Viento by Tabapress.