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2022, Political Power and Social Theory

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2022, Ohm : Obradoiro de Historia Moderna

En este trabajo se atiende a los efectos que sobre el futuro desarrollo comercial de la Galicia litoral tuvo la centralización y jerarquización portuaria iniciada a mediados del siglo XVIII, ratificada luego en 1785 con la fundación del Real Consulado de Comercio de A Coruña. Asimismo, se presta atención a los avatares que expresa tanto la situación de la coyuntura comercial, el comercio y el tráfico marítimo de toda Galicia, como la de los puertos situados en la mitad meridional y septentrional de su fachada atlántica. Un contexto geográfico este último donde se estudiarán las claves del funcionamiento de los mercados costeros y la estructura comercial de uno de los enclaves litorales más importantes del sudoeste gallego. El artículo finalizará analizando el impacto y las implicaciones del comercio marítimo en la evolución de la economía y la sociedad gallega en el tránsito de los siglos XVIII al XIX.

2022, Political Power and Social Theory

2022

The Royal Delft Museum in the Netherlands receives more than 100,000 international visitors each year. Few of those visitors are likely to know that there was once a similar industry operating in Lancaster in the second half of the 18th... more

2022, Political Power and Social Theory

2021

The study of glasses in Portugal has been mainly oriented to the historical, economic and social aspects of the glass industry, exception given to the studies of glass production developed by Vasco Valente (Valente 1950) and Carlos Barros (Barros 1998) about 50 years ago. More recently, Ferreira (Ferreira 1997) and Custodio (Custodio 2002) have been developing an important work, concerning the study, identification and characterisation of the glass production in 18th century Portugal. Due to the lack of written sources about the chemical characterisation of objects manufactured in Portugal, their manufacturing centres and the production dates, the Portuguese glass is today unknown. Many high quality glasses from collections of national and city museums, national palaces, private owners, etc., continue to be identified as being manufactured in well-known European glass centres. Many historians believe that the Portuguese production was of bad quality and without any expression. These...

2021, Santiago de Compostela, Xunta de Galicia (Consellería de Presidencia), 1986

He aquí un libro de historia donde son especialmente llamativos sus criterios renovadores. Trata un asunto inédito: el comercio colonial de Galicia en el tramo final del Antiguo régimen. Trata, también, de industria (preindustria, si se prefiere) y de burguesía, aspectos todos demasiado abandonados hasta aquí por la historia del país gallego. Su marco primordial es la ciudad-puerto (A Coruña, sobre todo , Ferról y Vigo), engarzando además la vida económica con sus implicaciones políticas y sociales manifiestas. El conjunto se orienta hacia la más completa interpretación global del problema de Galicia.

2021

Commercial Port Cádiz is a harbor city in which it is diffi cult to distinguish where the city begins and where the harbor ends; the border between city and harbor was even more ambiguous in ancient times. The lack of space not only caused a blurring of city and harbor but also has made Cádiz a densely populated area. Some scholars believe that Cádiz was founded as "Gadr" by Phoenician merchants from Tyre sometime between 1100 and 700 b.c.e. ; most scholars believe that Cádiz is at least three thousand years old. The city became an important seaport from which tin, copper, and other Tartessian-Turdetanian goods were exported. Named "Gadeira" by the Greeks and "Gades" by the Romans, it was a well-known worship center of the Melqart-Heracles temple. An ally of Carthage during the Punic Wars, Cádiz acknowledged the supremacy of Rome in 205 b.c.e. In 49 b.c.e., "Gades" was bestowed Roman citizen-ship by Julius Caesar, putting it legally on a level...

2021

Before the revolution in coal technology that swept the British iron industry in the last years of the eighteenth century, native ironmasters were unable to meet the burgeoning demand for malleable bar iron. The shortfall was made good by imports of bar iron from the Baltic, first from Sweden, then from Russia. This article presents new empirical evidence on the role played by Baltic iron in the Georgian economy. It also considers the impact of Swedish and Russian iron on domestic ironmasters as they sought organizational, as well as technological, ways to overcome the energy constraints facing the industry.

2018

El presente estudio pretende analizar las representaciones urbanas de la ciudad de A Coruña a través de un largo período histórico que va del siglo XVI al XVIII. A su vez, muestra también los cambios que ha ido experimentando la manera de “mirar” de los distintos “artistas”; desde las primeras imágenes que son simples recreaciones imaginarias
a las más realistas “vedute” de la Ilustración, pasando por las imágenes convencionales, las vistas a “vuelo de pájaro” o las grandes panorámicas.
This paper sets out to analyse the urban chorographies of the city of A Coruña over a lengthy period in history running from the 16th to the 18th centuries. It also reveals the changes that have taken place in the way “artists” have “looked” at their subjects, from the first images, which are mere fictitious recreations, to conventional cartographic figures, bird’s eye views, large panoramic depictions, and on to the most realistic of vedute.

2016

The city of Ferrol was designed 'ex-novo' by military engineers to serve the Spanish monarchy and to house its naval base and dockyards. The principles of stratification on which society was based, and the need to defend the city from enemy attacks and to discipline workers led to a spatial plan that segregated the Navy officers and the working classes. In the nineteenth century, the naval base and the enclave economy of Ferrol became obsolete. Furthermore, the new political culture of the nation state and liberal democracy complicated further the task of controlling the working class. The Spanish Civil War allowed for the updating of Ferrol's spatial plan thanks to the identification of a single enemy both inside and outside: the political repression of the working-class became a major issue in the victory against the II República. The Franco regime meant the return of a segregated and militarized Ferrol, whereas in the 1980s, European integration and the transition to democracy made this model obsolete.

2016, The Economic History Review

The central role of the iron industry in Britain's industrialization is a textbook commonplace. Iron was one of those sectors in which indisputably revolutionary changes took place. The use of coke in smelt-ing, the application of... more

2013

Gentle reader: This is the second of a series of three posts about the postal service in 18th century Britain. The first, Letters and the Penny-Post, can be read at this link. These posts are written in conjunction with Austenprose's discussion of Lady Susan, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters, and thus are the inspiration for these posts.

2012

This research investigates how the Dale Company of Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, founded by Abraham Darby I in 1708, distributed the ironware that it made.The research revealed several interesting things about the distribution methods used by The Dale Company. The firm was found to have used three different types of river carriers. It made very limited use of wagons for delivery of goods and over the time period studied there was a marked decline in overall use of road carriage. The company also was shown to move away from small customers towards larger firms and to have a monthly ordering pattern for goods that remained largely uninfluenced by its biggest customer and had similar peaks and troughs in all three years