Port-Cities and their Hinterlands

This interdisciplinary book brings together eleven original contributions by scholars in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, America and Japan which represent innovative and important research on the relationship between port-cities and their hinterlands.

Autorentext

Robert Lee was the Chaddock Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Liverpool, UK, where he is now an Emeritus and Honorary Professor.

Paul McNamara is Assistant Professor in History and Political Science at the Technical University of Koszalin, Poland.

Inhalt

1 Port-towns, their hinterlands and forelands: a critical review 2 Rabat after the Morisco migration: a Maghrebi port city's footprints, 1609-1666 3 An imposed co-operation: Porto and its hinterland between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period 4 Iberian trade monopolies and their impact on non-metropole ports and their hinterlands 5 Violence in eighteenth-century European port-cities and their hinterlands: Porto as a case study 6 Port cities and inland distribution: merchants' functional divisions between early modern Amsterdam and its hinterlands 7 Circuits of migration to a port in the making: Antwerp, 1760-1860 8 The impact of the American foreland on the European transatlantic migrant trade via the port of New York 9 Ports as bridges between civilisations: the case of the Four Communes of Senegal, 1659-1914 10 Engineering in the port cities of British India: the notion of the intellectual hinterland 11 A Hinterland Rejected: The Free City of Danzig, Poland and the League of Nations, 1933-1939