Port Town

Port Town
Author: George Cunningham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2015-06-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692030622

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A history of the Port of Long Beach, Calif., from the days of Native Americans in San Pedro Bay to the present, Port Town tells the story of the men and women who took a mud flat and turned it into an economic powerhouse, one of the world's most modern ports.

Port Cities

Port Cities
Author: Carola Hein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Globalization
ISBN: 9780415780421

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Scholars from multiple disciplines explore similarities, dissimilarities and the ways in which sea-based networking influences urban landscapes and architecture, socio-economic and cultural development from the 19th to the 21st centuries.

Port Towns and Urban Cultures

Port Towns and Urban Cultures
Author: Brad Beaven
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2016-05-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137483164

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Despite the port’s prominence in maritime history, its cultural significance has long been neglected in favour of its role within economic and imperial networks. Defined by their intersection of maritime and urban space, port towns were sites of complex cultural exchanges. This book, the product of international scholarship, offers innovative and challenging perspectives on the cultural histories of ports, ranging from eighteenth-century Africa to twentieth-century Australasia and Europe. The essays in this important collection explore two key themes; the nature and character of ‘sailortown’ culture and port-town life, and the representations of port towns that were forged both within and beyond urban-maritime communities. The book’s exploration of port town identities and cultures, and its use of a rich array of methodological approaches and cultural artefacts, will make it of great interest to both urban and maritime historians. It also represents a major contribution to the emerging, interdisciplinary field of coastal studies.

Port Cities of Atlantic Iberia, c. 1500–1900

Port Cities of Atlantic Iberia, c. 1500–1900
Author: Professor Patrick O'Flanagan
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2013-06-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1409480119

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Charting the evolution of the port cities of Atlantic Spain and Portugal over four centuries, this book examines the often dynamic interaction between the large privileged ports of Lisbon, Seville and Cadiz (the Metropoles) and the smaller ports of, among others, Oporto, Corunna and Santander (the Second Tier). The book particularly focuses on the implications of state-sponsored commercial policies for the main ports of Atlantic Iberia during the monopoly period extending from 1503 to c.1778, and briefly considers the implications of the suppression of monopoly for these centres over the remainder of the nineteenth century. Patrick O'Flanagan employs a wealth of source material to provide a multi-faceted survey of the growth of these port cities, moving deftly from local concerns to regional developments and global relationships. Beyond Spain and Portugal, the book also considers the important role played by the Atlantic archipelagoes of the Canaries, the Azores and Madeira. This formidable study is an essential addition to the library of those studying Atlantic Iberia, historical geography, and transatlantic economic relationships of this period.

Global Port Cities in North America

Global Port Cities in North America
Author: Boris Vormann
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2014-11-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317577132

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As the material anchors of globalization, North America’s global port cities channel flows of commodities, capital, and tourists. This book explores how economic globalization processes have shaped these cities' political institutions, social structures, and urban identities since the mid-1970s. Although the impacts of financialization on global cities have been widely discussed, it is curious that how the global integration of commodity chains actually happens spatially — creating a quantitatively new, global organization of production, distribution, and consumption processes — remains understudied. The book uses New York City, Los Angeles, Vancouver, and Montreal as case studies of how once-redundant spaces have been reorganized, and crucially, reinterpreted, so as to accommodate new flows of goods and people — and how, in these processes, social, environmental, and security costs of global production networks have been shifted to the public.

The Modern Gazetteer

The Modern Gazetteer
Author: Thomas Salmon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 536
Release: 1759
Genre: Gazetteers
ISBN:

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The Universal Gazetteer

The Universal Gazetteer
Author: John Watson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 610
Release: 1794
Genre:
ISBN:

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The Archaeology of Medieval Towns: Case Studies from Japan and Europe

The Archaeology of Medieval Towns: Case Studies from Japan and Europe
Author: Simon Kaner
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2020-08-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789694272

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In recent years, major new archaeological discoveries have redefined the development of towns and cities in Japan. This fully illustrated book provides a sampler of these findings for a western audience. The new discoveries from Japan are set in context of medieval archaeology beyond Japan by accompanying essays from leading European specialists.