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Port-Cities and their Hinterlands - Migration, Trade and Cultural Exchange from the Early Seventeenth Century to 1939 (Hardcover)
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Port-Cities and their Hinterlands - Migration, Trade and Cultural Exchange from the Early Seventeenth Century to 1939 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History
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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 cities and their hinterlands.
They discuss the factors which determined the changing nature of
port-hinterland relations in particular, and highlight the ways in
which port-cities have interacted and intersected with their
different hinterlands as a result of both in- and out-migration,
cultural exchange and the wider flow of goods, services and
information. Historically, maritime commerce was a powerful driving
force behind urbanisation and by 1850 seaports accounted for a
significant proportion of the world's great cities. Ports acted as
nodal points for the flow of population and the dissemination of
goods and services, but their role as growth poles also affected
the economic transformation of both their hinterlands and
forelands. In fact, most ports, irrespective of their size, had a
series of overlapping hinterlands whose shifting importance
reflected changes in trading relations (political frameworks),
migration patterns, family networks and cultural exchange. Urban
historians have been criticised for being concerned primarily with
self-contained processes which operate within the boundaries of
individual towns and cities and as a result, the key relationships
between cities and their hinterlands have often been neglected. The
chapters in this work focus primarily on the determinants of
port-hinterland linkages and analyse these as distinct, but
interrelated, fields of interaction. Marking a significant
contribution to the literature in this field, Port-Cities and their
Hinterlands provides essential reading for students and scholars of
the history of economics.
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