Arnaud Bartolomei, “La révolution industrielle en Méditerranée (1780-1880). Un échec?”, Cahiers de la Méditerranée, 103, 2021.
European historiography considers that the Industrial Revolution never happened in the Mediterranean. Historians working on Mediterranean economies have highlighted the diversity of industrial forms and successes that the great ports of the northern shore (Barcelona, Marseille, Genoa, Piraeus) experienced during the 19th century. On the other hand, the very renewal of analyses of the “first industrial revolution”, leads to reconsider the role of the Mediterranean in the European process of industrialization.