Small Harbors: Drivers of the Saintonge Maritime Economy (15th–18th Centuries)
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Abstract
Between the 15th and 18th centuries, the Saintonge coast was open to maritime trade. These shores were attractive because the islands of Oleron and Re offered fleets real protection from Atlantic storms and for this reason, this coastline was known as the “Mer des Perthuis” (the sea of gaps). In the late Middle Ages, merchants from Northern Europe came to buy salt from Brouage and wine from Cognac. With their new-found wealth from this trade, many of the small Saintonge ports launched fishing expeditions for cod in Newfoundland’s waters during the 16th century. This was a time of great prosperity for the small towns of Marennes and Brouage. The French Wars of Religion undermined this local economy. In the 17th century came the sugar revolution, but this new market required larger ships and greater capital investment than those required for coastal trading or cod fishing. So the small Saintonge ports returned to their core markets of coastal fishing and shipping, which they maintained until the end of the 19th century.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.000 |
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