Un tournant historiographique : les ports francs entre l’espace méditerranéen, l’Atlantique et l’approche globale

Complex Gateways. Labour and Urban History of Maritime Port Cities: The Northern Adriatic in a Comparative Perspective

“…While the first one was a very contingent answer to the victual crisis the Genoese Republic was experiencing because of the severe cooling of temperatures in the first phase of the Little Ice Age, the second was part of a largescale project envisaged by the Medici rulers to revitalize the Tuscan economy and to insert the Grand Duchy in the international arena. 2 By the eighteenth century, albeit with significant tariff and legislative differences, the free port model was to find application throughout the entire Mediterranean (Naples, Venice, Civitavecchia, Tangiers, Marseille, Fiume, Trieste, Messina, Ancona, Nizza-Villafranca), in Northern Europe (Dunkirk, Bayonne, L'Orient, Ostend, Althona, Hamburg, Marstrand) and in the Caribbean (Curaçao, Saint Thomas, Saint-Domingue, Martinique, Jamaica, and Dominica) (Tazzara 2017;Trampus 2021).…”

The Free Port Debate: Economic Policies, International Equilibria and Mythologies (Eighteenth-Nineteenth Century)

“…While the first one was a very contingent answer to the victual crisis the Genoese Republic was experiencing because of the severe cooling of temperatures in the first phase of the Little Ice Age, the second was part of a largescale project envisaged by the Medici rulers to revitalize the Tuscan economy and to insert the Grand Duchy in the international arena. 2 By the eighteenth century, albeit with significant tariff and legislative differences, the free port model was to find application throughout the entire Mediterranean (Naples, Venice, Civitavecchia, Tangiers, Marseille, Fiume, Trieste, Messina, Ancona, Nizza-Villafranca), in Northern Europe (Dunkirk, Bayonne, L'Orient, Ostend, Althona, Hamburg, Marstrand) and in the Caribbean (Curaçao, Saint Thomas, Saint-Domingue, Martinique, Jamaica, and Dominica) (Tazzara 2017;Trampus 2021).…”