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Soggetti, spazi e istituzioni urbane nel contrabbando di sale tra Sicilia e regno di Napoli fra guerre napoleoniche e restaurazione
Full text linkL'articolo analizza le dinamiche del contrabbando di sale dalla Sicilia al Regno di Napoli dai punti di vista dei porti di Trapani e di Messina e delle loro specificità istituzionali ed economiche, durante il periodo delle guerre napoleoniche e del protettorato inglese in Sicilia e nei primi anni della restaurazion
Illicit trades and smuggling activities on the island of Stromboli, 1808–1816: gender roles during a commercial crisis
Full text linkThis article examines the impact of the Continental Blockade upon a local fishing and agricultural economy in the Mediterranean by focusing on the illicit trades that flourished on Stromboli. The island became a strategic location for smuggling between the warring kingdoms of British allied Naples and French ruled Sicily. This paper argues that the Blockade allowed Stromboli to join the network of maritime traffic that had been dominated by the two biggest islands in the archipelago. Although equally integrated into agriculture and fishing, women participated in the fraudulent sale of prize goods but were excluded from large-scale smuggling operations.L'étude examine l'impact du Blocus continental sur l'économie locale de la pêche et de l'agriculture en Méditerranée. Elle est centrée sur les échanges commerciaux illicites qui ont prospéré à Stromboli. L'île devint en effet un lieu stratégique de contrebande entre les deux puissances en guerre qu'étaient le Royaume de Naples d'un côté, allié des Anglais et celui de Sicile alors aux mains des Français. L'auteur soutient que le Blocus ouvrit Stromboli à l'ensemble du réseau de trafic maritime qui, jusque-là, était dominé par les deux plus grandes îles de l'archipel Eolien. Les femmes, bien intégrées aux activités agricoles et à celles liées à la pêche, participèrent à la vente frauduleuse de produits de butin, mais furent par contre exclues des opérations de contrebande à grande échelle.Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Auswirkungen der Kontinentalsperre auf die lokale Fischerei und die Landwirtschaft im Mittelmeer, indem er sich auf die illegalen Gewerbe konzentriert, die auf Stromboli florierten. Die Insel wurde zu einem strategischen Schmuggelplatz zwischen den im Verfall befindlichen Königreichen Neapel (mit Großbritannien verbündet) und Sizilien (unter französischer Herrschaft). Die These lautet, dass die Kontinentalsperre es Stromboli erlaubte, sich in das Schiffsverkehrsnetzwerk einzufügen, das von den beiden größten Inseln innerhalb des Archipels dominiert worden war. Obwohl sie gleichermaßen im der Landwirtschaft und der Fischerei engagiert waren, nahmen Frauen am betrügerischen Verkauf von Beutegut teil, blieben aber von groß angelegten Schmuggelaktionen ausgeschlossen
Une économie de la frontière : l’activité des femmes à Stromboli au XIXe siècle
No full textÀ Stromboli, pendant le XIXme siècle, les femmes étaient non seulement souvent propriétaires des maisons et des terres comme les hommes, mais aussi présentes dans tous les types de métier. Les témoignages des voyageurs et les sources historiques (actes notariés, enquetes) montrent qu’elles étaient actives dans l’agriculture, la pêche et le secteur maritime, le commerce et le petit crédit
Prefazione
No full textAn introduction to the book of Francesca Freeman, dealing with the history and anthropology of a matriarchal societ
Generazioni. Legami di parentela tra passato e presente
No full textIl volume raccoglie saggi di storici, antropologi e demografi che analizzano l'influenza dei legami familiari e delle relazioni tra generazioni sui sistemi di cura alle età ppiù fragili della vita, sull'organizzazione delle risorse economiche e dei compiti lavorativi, sulle rappresentazioni simboliche e politiche
Soggetti diritti poteri. Introduzione
No full textIl saggio introduttivo della raccolta ripercorre criticamente le tappe della storiografia di Giovanna Fium
A two-sided kingdom: a Sicily of export and urban grain supply
No full textThe Sicilian provisioning system sought to guarantee both the subsistence of cities and the income of the great aristocratic landowners interested in the wheat market. A set of economic mechanisms, social practices and political conflicts unfolded around the urban Annonas, dealing with wheat and flour distribution, bread production, contracts for the procurement of supplies, and the price system of the mete, run by political élites. North-eastern Sicily was exclusively consumer, while the west central area produced surpluses for the foreign market and for the rest of the island, including the capital Palermo, and Messina, a rich and hungry city. The centralized office of the Maestro Portulano granted exports through the fiscal and commercial infrastructure of the caricatori, and export permits were traded in a highly dynamic speculative market
Women and movable goods in a maritime border economy in 19th century Sicily (Aeolian Islands)
No full textThis chapter focuses on women possessing material goods, and on their informal administration, use, production, maintenance, and transformation in a small Sicilian island, Stromboli in the Aeolian Archipelago, in the first half of the 19th century. To explore this diverse social practices such as work, assistance, personal and familial relationships, and the informal management of money in transactions should all be taken into account. In areas such as Southern Italy, where Roman Law heritage predominated in Medieval and Early Modern age, women’s property rights were quite strong: although they were subject to special restrictions, they enjoyed, at the same time, special protections, as in the case of the dowry system. The new Bourbon Civil Code enacted under the Restoration was quite flexible and allowed to balance the transmission of property to women and men. Archival sources such as judicial proceedings, marriage contracts, wills and post-mortem inventories give the possibility to shed some light on the everyday life of women of the lower classes and on their relationship with movable goods, personal objects, household goods, and working tools. Women in Stromboli owned and used objects for agricultural and fishing activities and fully participated to the economic life of the island with its licit and illicit trades
Il controllo dell'approvvigionamento, dei mercati e dei consumi: regolamentazioni e conflitti nella "grande trasformazione" tra Sette e Ottocento
No full textRiflessione storiografica sul rapporto tra cibo, istituzioni e conflitti, che si focalizza in particolare sulla questione dei regolamenti dei marketplace
Scansar le frodi. Prede corsare nella Sicilia del decennio inglese (1808-1813)
No full textThis essay discusses the topic of fraud linked to the prizes taken by corsairs in the Mediterranean during the period of the Continental Blockade, from the viewpoint of the Kingdom of Sicily, where the Bourbon court was sheltering under the English protectorate. The Tribunale delle prede (1808-1813) judged the legitimacy of the prizes taken by armed Sicilian corsair vessels from ships flying enemy or neutral flags, in a complex juridical framework which also involved the Health and Police authorities, at a time when in the rest of Europe similar institutions were being created. The documents produced by the Tribunale offer a penetrating insight into the dynamics of the fraud and into the practices, set up by the parties involved (judges, ship-owners, corsair captains and crews, merchants, buyers, consuls and official port authorities) which governed the capture, commercialization and evaluation of the prizes. The economy of fraud was not in conflict with the regular economy, but rather a part of it. Corsairing, for its institutional, juridical, diplomatic, political and economic aspects, became a paradigm of commerce, protected by the country of origin and hostile to rivals; and fraud was just one of its possible options
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