Table Of ContentPALGRAVE STUDIES IN ECONOMIC HISTORY
The Urban Logistic Network
Cities, Transport and Distribution
in Europe from the
Middle Ages to Modern Times
Edited by
Giovanni Favero · Michael-W. Serruys
Miki Sugiura
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Giovanni Favero · Michael-W. Serruys ·
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The Urban Logistic
Network
Cities, Transport and Distribution in Europe
from the Middle Ages to Modern Times
Editors
Giovanni Favero Michael-W. Serruys
Department of Management Faculté des Lettres et Sciences
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Humaines
Venice, Italy Universite de Bretagne Occidentale
Brest, France
Miki Sugiura
Faculty of Economics
Hosei University
Tokyo, Japan
ISSN 2662-6497 ISSN 2662-6500 (electronic)
Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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A
cknowledgements
It took many years to make this book, and the editors obtained much
supports in the process. It was 2006 when the editors, Giovanni Favero,
Michael Serruys and Miki Sugiura, met at different occasions: the former
two at a conference of the European Association of Urban History in
Stockholm, and the latter two at a Posthumus Institute masterclass of
Professor Lynn Lees in The Netherlands. The following year, the three
editors embarked on organizing a series of successful sessions at inter-
national conferences (European Association of Urban History 2008 and
2010, European Social Science History Conference 2010 and 2012,
Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana 2013). Furthermore, a workshop-
conference ‘Gateways and Hinterlands in Europe, 1400–1900’ was
held in January 2011 in Venice at the Ca’ Foscari University to dis-
cuss the general approach and contributions of the authors. The
editors thank all the scholars who participated in these occasions and
shared their thoughts and insights, in particular, Andrea Caracausi, John
Davis, Marion Huibrechts, Clé Lesger and Takashi Okunishi. Between
2009 and 2011, these occasions were funded by the Japan Society for
Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists(B) No.
21730278 ‘European Gateway and Hinterlands on the Move. Urban
Logistics Model for Mapping Distribution, Transport and Market forma-
tions in History’ (April 2009–March 2011). We thank both the adminis-
trations of Tokyo International University and Ca’ Foscari University for
assisting our events.
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vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book would not have come to realization without the support
of the editors at Palgrave Macmillan. Laura Pacey was the first to believe
in this book, together with Ruth Noble, Clara Heathcock and Sophia
Siegler. We thank also Kent Deng, the series editor, together with three
anonymous referees, for their comments which helped us to make the
single chapters and the whole volume better.
The authors were greatly supportive in participating in meetings,
working in coordination with us, waiting very long and finally replying
fast to our requests. This book is their book. We, the editors, feel so for-
tunate to have met each other, as the process was long but thoroughly
fun and discovering. In particular, we want to thank our partners and
families, who grew with small members participating during these years.
The best part of the editing process was the intensive days we shared at
our homes in Houwaart in summer 2009, in Bassano del Grappa in sum-
mer 2011 and in Tokyo in spring 2012. We finally would like to thank
Mirella, Erica and Kohey for their kind support during the stay.
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Miki Sugiura
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ontents
1 Introduction 1
Giovanni Favero, Michael-W. Serruys and Miki Sugiura
Part I A Single Gateway
2 Gateway of Gothenburg 23
Per Hallén
Part II Changing Shapes of Urban Networks
3 Bordeaux from Its Vineyards to Its Hinterland:
A Regional Capital in the Late Middle Ages 53
Sandrine Lavaud
4 Urban Networks on the Move: The Austrian
Netherlands’ Transit Policy and the Development
of the Belgian Urban Networks in the Eighteenth
Century (1704–1793) 75
Michael-W. Serruys
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5 Persistence and Evolution in the Eastern Sicilian
Coastal Corridor: The Mobility of Goods and People
at the Port of Catania (1817–1860) 101
Giovanni Cristina
6 Bridging the Gap: The Belfast-Dublin Railway
Corridor in the Nineteenth Century 123
Agustina Martire
Part III The Making of a Regional Network
7 Urban Network and Economic Policy: The Milanese
Case During the Spanish and Austrian Ages 145
Giovanna Tonelli
8 The Construction of an Inland Gateway: Milan
in the Course of the Early Modern Period 161
Luca Mocarelli
9 Gateways as Inter-Modal Nodes in Different Ages:
The Venetian Region, Eighteenth
to Twentieth Centuries 173
Giovanni Favero
Part IV Using the Network
10 The Flaxseed Trade Between Courland and Brittany
in the Eighteenth Century 193
Pierrick Pourchasse
11 Ports and Their Functions: Some Reflections
About Preindustrial Logistics 209
Werner Scheltjens
CONTENTS ix
12 Tracking Waters: Small Cities Transport Network
of Early Modern Friesland 225
Miki Sugiura
Index 249
