Great Ports of the Mercantile Era (Hardcover)

Great Ports of the Mercantile Era presents geographer Martyn J. Bowden’s various writings on the structure and form of the mercantile city in North America and the Caribbean. He argues in these essays that the mercantile city formed a distinct urban type that was markedly different from the earlier European feudal city and the later American industrial city. He illustrates his model of urban form with detailed case studies of Boston, San Francisco, New Orleans, Portland, Maine, and Bridgetown, Barbados.