Historical criticism of the essay Why did the industrial dynamism of Barranquilla dissipate?

• Main Author: Milton Zambrano Pérez
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad del Atlántico 2019-12-01
• Series: Amauta
• Subjects: puerto; estancamiento; comercio exterior; industria; desarrollo urbano
• Online Access: http://investigaciones.uniatlantico.edu.co/revistas/index.php/Amauta/article/view/2370

<p>In this study, the author submits to a thorough historical evaluation an essay that decisively influenced the historiography of the city of Barranquilla, that analyze a shift in the development of the city, that is, the period before the loss of importance of the city’s port and afterwards. This happened at the end of the decade of the 1930’s and was caused by the rise of the port in Buenaventura. The historian dismounts, one by one, the main assumptions and conclusions of the essay by Meisel Roca, and puts forward another vision over what happened in the city after the decade of the 1930’s.</p>