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The free port of Livorno and the transformation of the Mediterranean World /
No full textIn early modern Europe, free ports were places where merchants of any nation, religion, or ethnicity could trade on equal terms; and where there were no import and export taxes. This work shows how free trade emerged from the interstices of European commercial institutions by examining the history of the free port of Livorno.Specialized.This edition previously issued in print: 2017.Includes bibliographical references and index.In early modern Europe, free ports were places where merchants of any nation, religion, or ethnicity could trade on equal terms; and where there were no import and export taxes. This work shows how free trade emerged from the interstices of European commercial institutions by examining the history of the free port of Livorno.Specialized.Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 18, 2017)
La Competitivita del Commercio Della Diaspora
No full textReview article on Francesca Trivellato, The Familiarity of Stranger
Book Reviews : Orpheus in the Marketplace
No full textOrpheus in the Marketplace by Tim Carter and Richard A. Goldthwaite is reviewed
Imperial Ambition in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Genoese Merchants and the Spanish Crown, by Céline Dauverd
No full textFernand Braudel once wrote that the age of the Genoese was ‘so discrete and sophisticated that historians for a long time failed to notice it’. Unfortunately, despite the attention lavished upon Genoa by Braudel himself, few historians have taken the pains to examine the mechanics of Genoese hegemony. Céline Dauverd’s Imperial ambition in the early modern Mediterranean goes some way toward rectifying this situation
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