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Maritime History as Global History

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This study aims to provide new insights into the connections between maritime history and global history. It demonstrates the significance of maritime activity as a conduit of global exchange by examining local, national, and international interdependencies and trade networks, and a broad range of time periods, geographical areas, and various sub-divisions of maritime historical research. It is composed of ten essays, with an introductory chapter and concluding chapter. The first five essays discuss the effects globalisation on shipping in the early modern period; the following three discuss maritime transportation and the economics of industrialisation from the nineteenth century to the present day; the next discusses the impact of global entrepreneurialism on maritime history; the penultimate discusses the connections and variables between maritime and global history; and the concluding chapter examines the theoretical assumptions surrounding the two disciplines, using the
globalisation of Early Modern Spain as a case study to do so. The study demonstrates that the core strength of maritime history is its essential place in global history, and that the process of globalisation began at sea.

296 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2010

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Amélia Polónia

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AMÉLIA MARIA POLÓNIA DA SILVA nasceu no Porto, em 1962. Licenciou-se em História na Faculdade de Letras do Porto (1984), onde também se doutorou (2000), sendo Professora Catedrática desta instituição no Departamento de História, Estudos Políticos e Internacionais. Investigadora do CITCEM - Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar «Cultura, Espaço e Memória», foi Vogal do Conselho Diretivo da Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (2022-2023), Presidente da Associação Portuguesa de História Económica e Social (2021-2022), e Vice-Presidente da International Maritime History Economic Association, além de pertencer ao conselho editorial de revistas de especialidade, nomeadamente do IJMH-International Journal of Maritime History; Revista da Faculdade de Letras – História e da revista Locus – Revista de História da Universidade de Juiz de Fora. Coordenadora de vários projectos de investigação interdisciplinares, tem como principais áreas de docência a metodologia do trabalho científico, a história da expansão portuguesa e a história da colonização europeia, as quais intercepta com investigação em áreas como as das identidades socioprofissionais, o estudo de redes auto-organizadas e a análise social de comunidades marítimas.

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