Trade and Industry in Early Modern Italy

Trade and Industry in Early Modern Italy
Author: Domenico Sella
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2023-05-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 100093876X

This volume brings together a set of classic essays by Domenico Sella in which he reassesses the economic fortunes of Northern Italy, in particular Lombardy and Venice, during the 16th and 17th centuries. In addition, the literature on the economics and society of northern Italy had hitherto dealt primarily with the major cities, Milan, Florence and Venice, and their celebrated manufactures, extensive commercial activities and banking. By contrast their countryside was largely neglected and its population dismissed as an undifferentiated mass of peasants fully engaged in farming. The essays in this volume represent as many soundings into this "long forgotten" rural world. As it turns out, rural communities often harbored handicraft industries, and the latter appear to have avoided the debacle that hit the urban economies and their celebrated manufactures, highly regulated as they were by the guilds, in the face of international competition.

The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance

The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance
Author: Angela Nuovo
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004208496

This work offers the first English-language survey of the book industry in Renaissance Italy. Whereas traditional accounts of the book in the Renaissance celebrate authors and literary achievement, this study examines the nuts and bolts of a rapidly expanding trade that built on existing economic practices while developing new mechanisms in response to political and religious realities. Approaching the book trade from the perspective of its publishers and booksellers, this archive-based account ranges across family ambitions and warehouse fires to publishers' petitions and convivial bookshop conversation. In the process it constructs a nuanced picture of trading networks, production, and the distribution and sale of printed books, a profitable but capricious commodity. Originally published in Italian as Il commercio librario nell’Italia del Rinascimento (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1998; second, revised ed., 2003), this present English translation has not only been updated but has also been deeply revised and augmented.

Work in Early Modern Italy, 1500–1800

Work in Early Modern Italy, 1500–1800
Author: Luca Mocarelli
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2019-08-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030265463

Recent decades have seen many economic history books and articles published about working men and women, small and big entrepreneurs, guilds and state manufactures, farmers and journeymen, and children and citizens. Studies have been conducted both at a macro and a micro level, at a global and at a local scale and with regional and national approaches aimed at analysing cultural, social and economic phenomena associated with the world of work. Yet, there is still new ground to be covered. This book aims to fill a gap in early modern history by presenting new insights in the study of global labour history. It considers the whole Italian peninsula as one geographical unit of analysis, encompassing all of the features that characterize labour cultures during the early modern period. It details the evolution of forms of labour in both agriculture and manufacture and the role of labour as an economic, social and cultural factor in the evolution of the Italian area.

Imperial Ambition in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Imperial Ambition in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Author: Céline Dauverd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2015
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107062365

"Imperial Ambition in the Early Modern Mediterranean Genoese Merchants and the Spanish Crown. This book examines the alliance between the Spanish Crown and Genoese merchant bankers in southern Italy throughout the early modern era, when Spain and Genoa developed a symbiotic economic relationship, undergirded by a cultural and spiritual alliance. Analyzing early modern imperialism, migration, and trade, this book shows that the spiritual entente between the two nations was mainly informed by the religious division of the Mediterranean Sea. The Turkish threat in the Mediterranean reinforced the commitment of both the Spanish Crown and the Genoese merchants to Christianity. Spain's imperial strategy was reinforced by its willingness to acculturate to southern Italy through organized beneficence, representation at civic ceremonies, and spiritual guidance during religious holidays. Celine Dauverd is Assistant Professor of History and a board member of the Mediterranean Studies Group at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on sociocultural relations between Spain and Italy during the early modern era (1450-1650). She has published articles in the Sixteenth Century Journal, the Journal of World History, Mediterranean Studies, and the Journal of Levantine Studies"--

Buying and Selling

Buying and Selling
Author: Shanti Graheli
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 583
Release: 2019-02-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004340394

Buying and Selling explores the many facets of the business of books across and beyond Europe, adopting the viewpoints of printers, publishers, booksellers, and readers. Essays by twenty-five scholars from a range of disciplines seek to reconstruct the dynamics of the trade through a variety of sources. Through the combined investigation of printed output, documentary evidence, provenance research, and epistolary networks, this volume trails the evolving relationship between readers and the book trade. In the resulting picture of failure and success, balanced precariously between debt-economies, sale strategies and uncertain profit, customers stand out as the real winners.

Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy

Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy
Author: Sandra Cavallo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1995-03-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521483339

The first thorough study of charity, and medical and poor relief, in post-Renaissance Italy.

Early Modern Capitalism

Early Modern Capitalism
Author: Maarten Prak
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2005-06-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134604416

This volume takes stock of recent research on economic growth, as well as the development of capital and labour markets, during the centuries that preceded the Industrial Revolution. The book underlines the diversity in the economic experiences of early modern Europeans and suggests how this variety might be the foundation of a new conception of economic and social change.

Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World

Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World
Author: Aske Laursen Brock
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2021-10-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000463559

Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World explores the links between trade, empire, exploration, and global information trans>fer during the early modern period. By charting how the leaders, members, employees, and supporters of different trading companies gathered, pro>cessed, employed, protected, and divulged intelligence about foreign lands, peoples, and markets, this book throws new light on the internal uses of information by corporate actors and the ways they engaged with, relied on, and supplied various external publics. This ranged from using secret knowl>edge to beat competitors, to shaping debates about empire, and to forcing Europeans to reassess their understandings of specific environments due to contacts with non-European peoples. Reframing our understanding of trading companies through the lens of travel literature, this volume brings together thirteen experts in the field to facilitate a new understanding of how European corporations and empires were shaped by global webs of information exchange

Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice

Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice
Author: L. McGough
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2010-11-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230298079

A unique study of how syphilis, better known as the French disease in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, became so widespread and embedded in the society, culture and institutions of early modern Venice due to the pattern of sexual relations that developed from restrictive marital customs, widespread migration and male privilege.

Merchant Colonies in the Early Modern Period

Merchant Colonies in the Early Modern Period
Author: Victor N Zakharov
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317320530

Merchant colonies were a significant factor for economic growth in Europe during the early modern period. The essays in this collection look at merchant colonies across Europe, assessing their function, legal status, interaction with local traders and assimilation into their host countries.