Del puerto comercial al puerto industrial: síntesis comparada de los puertos vascos de Pasajes y Bayona (siglos XVIII-XIX)

AZCONA GUERRA, Ana Mercedes

Publication year:

2001

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISSN:

1136-6834

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Summary

The long-term comparative analysis of two frontier ports located to both sides of the Pyrenee has been made considering some important variables -geographical, political, human, economics- that defined the port-city relation during the commercial capitalism and in the Industrial Revolution. We have remarked in the multiple activities produced in each period and in the changing course of time followed in each one: in Bayonne the dynamic fluvial port-city was broken as a consequence of the creation of industrial port in the litoral while in Pasajes the port was the most important promoter of the industrial urbanization of their surroundings. During the last third of nineteen century the industrialization produced a higher level of specialization and the regional character was stressed.