História Marítima E Portuária Em Revista

Abstract

Flávio Gonçalves dos Santos 3;4 M aritime and Port History, the subjects that have been proposed for this Almanack dossier, are classics and yet insufficiently tapped into. The perspectives opened by this collection of articles indicate a long path to be followed to deepen such topics and their various possible approaches. Strictly speaking, ports would be modern sites for the movement of people and commodities, equipped with more sophisticated machines than the average wharf. However, considering that people and commodities were already in movement before a contemporary capitalist-based definition surfaced, we became used to calling docking sites for ships of different sizes and provenances "ports". Urban, cultural and economic specificities were developed around ports, which led to port cities having then and now characteristics that almost always arise from their condition as a communication link to their hinterlands, to nearby places, or even to long distance routes that connected them to the whole world. Crafts, professional cultures, forms of organization, intense traffic, diverse landscape, languages and ethnicities in coexistence: these are factors that bring the histories of ports and port cities closer to-1 Universidade Federal de São Paulo. Guarulhos-São Paulo-Brazil. 2 Jaime Rodrigues teaches is a profesor at UNIFESP and holds a PhD in History from UNICAMP.