English Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Italy

by Gigliola Pagano De Divitiis, Stephen Parkin

Overview

This book shows how England's conquest of Mediterranean trade proved to be the first step in building her future economic and commercial hegemony, and how Italy lay at the heart of that process. In her extensive use of English and Italian archival sources, the author looks well beyond Braudel's influential picture of a Spanish-dominated Mediterranean world. In doing so she demonstrates some of the causes of Italy's decline and its subsequent relegation as a dominant force in world trade.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521580311
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/05/1998
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.83(d)

Table of Contents

List of tables; Preface; 1. Times and places; 2. The ships; 3. Routes and ports; 4. Imported goods; 5. Exported goods; Conclusion.

Editorial Reviews

"...moderately advanced students as well as specialists in economic history will find in English Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Italy a useful compendium of data and an often though-provoking case study in that remarkable amplification of English commerical range and power which laid the basis for Britain's later global pre-eminence." Geoffrey Clark, Canadian Journal of History

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