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The Development of the Portuguese Frigate-Merchant of the Late-17th Century

Portugal is a country with an area of 92,361 km2, smaller than the state of Indiana in the United State of America. Despite its small size, in the Modern Age it was able to maintain a prodigious trade network extending over 100,000,000 km2; an area roughly 10 times greater that the surface of the U.S.A. The complexities and challenges of this 300- year commercial empire spawned the development of a different type of vessel during the 17th century, the Portuguese Frigate-Merchant.

Portugal?s maritime vocation for a new century

2015

This paper will discuss the features and the trends of Portugal?s future maritime activities in the context of a political process related to the enlargement of the continental shelf. It is our belief that the extension of Portugal?s continental shelf will have a multidimensional impact over a set of different economic activities and it will represent a major challenge in terms of our geopolitical orientation. This way, we chose a set of specialists with different scientific backgrounds and professional experience, in order to put our main hypothesis into test. In practical terms, and with the goal to evaluate our main objective, we have launched a DELPHI survey, collecting the opinion of said pre-selected panel of specialists. This panel included specialists in politics, economics, military and academia. This paper is divided into four sections: In the first part, we will discuss some theoretical trends related to maritime related activities and maritime transport that might have a...

The organization of nautical teaching in Portugal in the second half of the eighteenth century: schools, teachers and students (presentation)

This study analyzes the organization of nautical teaching in Portugal in the period between 1762 and 1807. Since 1760 the Portuguese nautica started an institutionalized apprenticeship within the education reform initiated in the reign of D. Joseph I and developed by his daughter D. Maria I. The class of chief cosmographer disappeared to give place to a more professional structure enhanced by the emergence of academies created specifically for this purpose, which would be the precursor of polytechnic education in Portugal. The first step in pilotage teaching was given in Oporto with the creation of a nautical class in 1762 and later on with the appearance in Lisbon of the Royal Marine Academy (1779) and the Royal Marine Guards Academy (1782). This piece of work, about the main Portuguese nautical schools in the eighteenth century, their curricula, teachers, goals and achievements, is part of an ongoing PhD project.

Charts for an empire. A global trading zone in early modern Portuguese nautical cartography

Centaurus, 2018

The global phenomenon of maritime expansion and the measures of control imposed by the interventionism of the Iberian crowns generated a context that sheds light on the Zilselian issue: the contact between artisans and university‐trained men in early modern Europe. This is an old and controversial topic. However, this article does not focus solely on the economic and social reasons for this contact, but also on epistemological and political motivations. With the specific aim of illustrating this collaboration, the article analyses some of the empirical practices developed under the Portuguese maritime empire throughout the 16th century. This is achieved through the reconstruction of the process of production of nautical charts in the Armazéns da Guiné e Índia (Storehouse of Guinea and Indies) of Lisbon, which I consider a large‐scale “trading zone.” This reconstruction throws light not only on the technical complexity of these cognitive processes and the coordinated work of the different agents involved in their production, but also on the emergence of new spaces of knowledge and new communities of practitioners (with new professional statuses) linked to them; new methods of collection and management of information; and, finally, new forms of circulation and standardization of knowledge in the early modern period.

Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400-1600

2016

Commissioned by Jordana Dym (Skidmore College) This collection of essays is a handbook for the English-speaking world interested in the Portuguese expansion overseas, in which Francisco Bethencourt and Diogo Ramada Curto set an agenda for a new set of approaches to the study of the Portuguese expansion. First, they wish to provide a global and comparative perspective of the Portuguese expansion. Second, they want to break

"SEAFARER BY PROFESSION": ENROLLMENTS OF SEAMEN AND THE MARITIME HISTORY OF PORTUGAL AND ITS DOMAINS IN 18 TH AND 19 TH CENTURIES 1

Almanack, 2019

This study presents the Enrollment Records of merchant ships that left Lisbon between the second half of the 18 th century and the first decades of the 19 th century. I highlight the potential of this source for studies about circulation of seafarers. Among other topics, this source allows one: to make an inventory of positions and functions on board; to establish individuals' time of experience and age when they enrolled in professions of the sea; to establish relationships among types of vessels, routes, crew size and travel time; to establish the differences of naturalness , social condition, age, training and experience of the seamen. Keywords Maritime History-seafarers-social history of labor.