SeaLiT studies the process of transition from sailing to steam navigation and its effects on the maritime populations of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea between the 1850s and 1920s. The main objective of the project is to analyze the consequences of innovation technological impact on workers and maritime communities, whose lives were drastically altered by the arrival of steam. The project investigates the maritime labor market, the evolution of relations between shipowners, captains, crew and their local societies, life on board and ashore, as well as the development of new strategies and trade routes and navigation guidelines. The project is carried out from a comparative perspective, and considers the sailors and the communities of seven maritime regions: of Barcelona and the Spanish Levantine coasts, of Marseilles and the Provencal ports, of Genoa and the coastal communities of Liguria, of Trieste and the coasts of Dalmatia, the Ionian Islands and the Aegean Sea and the mainland coastal part of Greece to Odessa, the seaport of the Black Sea. The ultimate goal of this comparative approach is to trace and understand the differences and similarities in the process of transition and integration into the global economy of different areas of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
ERC-2016STG 714437. European Research Council. 2016 Starting Grant. Ref. 714437
Principal Investigator: Apostolos Delis
Research center: Institute for Mediterranean Studies. FORTH. Crete.
