Pour voir les autres types de publications sur ce sujet consultez le lien suivant : Bientina (Italy) – Economic conditions.

Thèses sur le sujet « Bientina (Italy) – Economic conditions »

Créez une référence correcte selon les styles APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard et plusieurs autres

Choisissez une source :

Consultez les 20 meilleures thèses pour votre recherche sur le sujet « Bientina (Italy) – Economic conditions ».

À côté de chaque source dans la liste de références il y a un bouton « Ajouter à la bibliographie ». Cliquez sur ce bouton, et nous générerons automatiquement la référence bibliographique pour la source choisie selon votre style de citation préféré : APA, MLA, Harvard, Vancouver, Chicago, etc.

Vous pouvez aussi télécharger le texte intégral de la publication scolaire au format pdf et consulter son résumé en ligne lorsque ces informations sont inclues dans les métadonnées.

Parcourez les thèses sur diverses disciplines et organisez correctement votre bibliographie.

1

Edelsward, L. M. 1958. « Highland visions : recreating rural Sardinia ». Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28565.

Texte intégral
Résumé :
The village of Villagrande Strisaili, situated in central highlands of the island of Sardinia, Italy, is the subject of this ethnographic study of economic and cultural change. In Part I, a brief historical overview reveals that the pre-war society was largely subsistence based, with shepherding providing milk and cheese to sell on the market for cash. A strict division of labour and responsibilities by sex required mutual dependency of the male and female heads of a household, and supported local notions of gender equality. Part II examines the economic basis of and the restructuring of occupational opportunities in Villagrande today. Although shepherding and subsistence production continue to be important local activities, they are no longer the dominant forms of economic production and secure positions in government offices and institutions are now the preferred occupations. The profound cultural changes of recent decades is the focus of Part III. The notion of local culture, and of a distinctive local identity, is disappearing as cosmopolitan culture becomes localized through local acceptance. Contemporary villagers now create their sense of identity in terms of a wider reality, as defined by the powerful messages of the cosmopolitan system which are efficiently disseminated to villagers through the state educational system and the ubiquitous mass media. These cultural changes have unexpected consequences on the local culture and its reproduction to future generations.
Styles APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, etc.
2

Missiaia, Anna. « Industrial location, market access and economic development : regional patterns in post-unification Italy ». Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2014. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1078/.

Texte intégral
Résumé :
What accounts for the differences in the economic performance across Italian regions in the post-Unification period? This thesis seeks to explain the regional patterns of economic development and industrialization in Italy in the period 1871-1911 by applying various Economic Geography models. The first part follows Overman and Puga (2002) and studies the distribution of industrial employment across regions. The aim is to test the effect of regional borders on the distribution of industrial employment. The existence of this border effect, tested through the use of provincial data, suggests that the Italian regions in this period represented meaningful economic entities. By testing the effect of pre-1861 borders we link this result to the persistence of pre-Unification institutional arrangements. The second part follows the methodology by Head and Mayer (2011) and investigates the relationship between economic performance and market access. Here market access is captured through market potential, a measure of the centrality of a region based on GDP and transport costs. The main result is that domestic market potential is a strong determinant of GDP per capita while all the formulations of market potential that include trading partners give more mixed results. The last part seeks to explain the location of industries in Italy in the period 1871–1911. The analytical framework takes into account both the Heckscher-Ohlin (H-O) theory on factor endowment and the New Economic Geography (NEG) theory on access to markets. The methodology used here is based on Midelfart-Knarvik et al. (2000). The location of industries, measured through employment per region per sector, is explained with interactions between characteristics of the regions and characteristics of the sectors, of both H-O and NEG-type. The main findings of this chapter are that endowments, and in particular human capital, were the driving force behind the first Italian industrialization while access to markets had a more limited effect.
Styles APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, etc.
3

Rodriguez, d’Acri Costanza. « Bridging the divide : firms and institutional variety in Italy ». Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2011. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/159/.

Texte intégral
Résumé :
The underperformance of Italy’s macroeconomy is common knowledge, yet empirical evidence has shown that a high quality segment of Italian export oriented firms has outperformed international competitors although the country lacks practically all attributes of a coordinated market economy. This thesis shows that the ability of firms to produce high quality goods in Italy is linked to the practice of "capital skill asset pooling" within a novel model of production organisation, "disintegrated hierarchy". "Capital-skill asset pooling" follows from the vertical disintegration of production functions across firms and entails the sharing of production assets between firms governed by heterogeneous institutional frameworks. Through the comparisons of firm-level case studies across three industries, the thesis shows that two simultaneous conditions are necessary for "capitalskill asset pooling" to develop: 1) the presence of lead firms endowed with patient capital, and 2) the presence small suppliers endowed with firm-, industry- and product-specific skills. This finding complements the Varieties of Capitalism literature by showing that firms can produce high or diversified quality goods in the absence of the necessary institutional preconditions by developing functional substitutes to coordinated market economy assets through "capital-skill asset pooling".
Styles APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, etc.
4

Martelli, Cristina Arrigoni. « The Waters of Momo : An Avant-garde Village in the Development of the Northern Italian Hay Industry Seen through Five Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Manuscripts ». Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2007. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/MartelliCA2007.pdf.

Texte intégral
Styles APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, etc.
5

Virgilio, Carlo. « Florence, Byzantium and the Ottomans (1439-1481) : politics and economics ». Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5738/.

Texte intégral
Résumé :
This dissertation studies the diplomatic and political communication between Florence, the Byzantine and the Ottoman empires in the fifteenth century (1439-1481). The first chapter is introductory to the thesis and reconstructs the contacts between Florence and Byzantium. The second chapter and the third chapter examine the privileges granted by John VIII to Florence; the chapters present the contents and contextualise the privileges within the humanist environment. The fourth chapter studies the Florentine-Byzantine contacts after the Council (1439-1453), focusing on why Florence abandoned Byzantium. The fifth chapter analyses the beginning of Florentine-Ottoman relations and reconstructs the commercial privileges given by the sultan to Florence. The sixth and seventh chapters investigate Florence’s diplomacy during the Ottoman-Venetian war (1463-1479) and Otranto (1480-1481) until Mehmet II’s death. The thesis is accompanied by three appendices including a number of unpublished documents, a prosopography of the Florentines involved in the Levant, and selected Byzantine charters used for the analysis in chapter two. I aim to demonstrate that the relations between the eastern and the western part of the Mediterranean in the fifteenth century were determined by political and economic considerations rather than faith. These considerations guided Florence’s diplomacy to achieve commercial superiority in Constantinople.
Styles APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, etc.
6

Perfetti, Guglielmo. « Absolute beginners of the 'Belpaese' : Italian youth culture and the Communist Party in the years of the economic boom ». Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/9132/.

Texte intégral
Résumé :
This study has the aim of exploring aspects of youth culture in Italy during the economic boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Its theoretical framework lies between the studies around Italian youth culture and those around the Italian Communist Party (PCI), investigating the relationship between young people and contemporary society and examining, for the first time, the relationship of the former with the PCI, its institutions and media organs. The arrival of an Anglo-American influenced pop culture (culture transmitted by the media and targeted at young people) and of its market, shaped the individualities of part of the pre-baby boomers that, finally, were able to create bespoke identities somewhat disconnected from the traditional party-related narrative while remaining on the left of the political spectrum. Pop symbols that blossomed in the late 1950s, such as the striped t-shirt, would characterise the style of young protesters who included them in their collective imagination from the early 1960s onwards. Simultaneously, a flourishing pop market gave space to other cultural experiences including Cantacronache, a group of young musicians based in Turin who vividly depicted Italy of the boom through their lyrics. Their efforts can be read as belonging to a pop market that finally starts to open up towards new musical stimuli. They aimed to make their music available beyond the circle of left-wing activism as well and they were produced by a label linked to the PCI that in those years was reshaping its approach towards society, getting rid of its radical fringes and opening to a dialogue with diverse strata of the public, including young people, women and non-members. The thesis investigates how the Communists and its Youth Federation (FGCI), reacted to the development of youth culture as an aspect of modernisation in general. Through an examination of the party’s approach to the youth revolts of the early 1960s and of its formal documents targeted at young people in general, we analyse how – and how successfully – the Communists tried to engage with young people while often, internal strands, the monolithic nature of the party and other elements, posed severe obstacles in meeting their demands, creating a fracture that would grow in the following years. The thesis also investigates how the party’s attempt to address young people was translated into the promotion of magazines in which serious political topics were discussed alongside other themes such as investigations into society and into the “questione giovanile.” In this respect, we will see how the FGCI journal Nuova generazione tried, in the late 1950s, to take account of youth inclinations paying attention to other important topics such as the emancipation of young women. The generation we look at is the first to claim the right to build its individual identities by drawing on pop culture and modernisation, developing codes and behaviours that pulled away from those set by the institutions.
Styles APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, etc.
7

Cancian, Sonia. « Una raccolta di lettere italiane inviate agli emigrati in Canada, 1954-1955 ». Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0028/MQ50501.pdf.

Texte intégral
Styles APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, etc.
8

Simelon, Paul J. « Etude de la propriété en Lucanie romaine depuis les Gracques jusqu'aux Flaviens ». Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/213112.

Texte intégral
Styles APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, etc.
9

ZAGLI, Andrea. « Il lago, la palude, la comunità : aspetti socio-economici del rapporto uomo ambiente a Bientina nella Toscana moderna (secoli XVI-XIX) ». Doctoral thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/6023.

Texte intégral
Résumé :
Defence date: 22 March 1996
Examining board: Prof. Gérard Delille, EUI ; Prof. Adriano Prosperi, Università di Pisa ; Prof. Robert Rowland, ISCTE, Lisbon (supervisor) ; Prof. Ivan Tognarini, Università di Siena ; Prof. Stuart Woolf, University of Essex (co-supervisor)
First made available online: 7 September 2016
Styles APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, etc.
10

COLI, Annalisa. « I canoni del bello temperato : modelli produttivi e percorsi locali nell'Italia del productivity drive ». Doctoral thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/6572.

Texte intégral
Résumé :
Defence date: 20 November 2006
Examining board: Prof. Giovanni Federico (Supervisor) ; Prof. Luciano Segreto (External Supervisor) ; Prof. Victoria De Grazia (EUI Professor) ; Prof. Jonathan Zeitlin (Prof. at the University of Wisconsin)
PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 2017
Styles APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, etc.
11

CAPPELLI, Gabriele. « The uneven development of Italy’s regions, 1861-1936 : a new analysis based on human capital, institutional and social indicators ». Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/33868.

Texte intégral
Résumé :
Defence date: 21 November 2014
Examining Board: Professor Youssef Cassis, EUI and RSCAS (Supervisor); Professor Michelangelo Vasta, University of Siena (External Supervisor); Professor Giovanni Federico, University of Pisa; Professor Joan Roses, London Schools of Economics and Political Science.
This thesis sheds new light on the process of economic divergence that characterized Italy’s regions in the second half of the nineteenth century and the Interwar period. It shows that social capital had a limited impact on the regions’ economic fortune prior to the Great War. Further, only specific dimensions of social capital affected regional economic growth. Instead, the country’s regional inequalities grew large as a result of different endowments of human capital. In turn, human capital differences inherited from pre-unification states remained large as a result of public policy, which established a decentralized education system in 1859. This choice delayed convergence in primary schooling across regions, because of the tight connection between municipal fiscal capacity and the supply of schools and teachers. Centralized education, introduced with the Daneo-Credaro Reform in 1911, loosened this link and favoured regional convergence in human capital. Contrary to expectations, local institutional mechanisms did not play a large role in the growth of mass education: a detailed analysis of the determinants of primary schooling across Italy’s provinces in the years 1871 – 1911 confirms that local economic conditions influenced the development of human capital far more than political participation and access to local decision-making. These results cast doubt on recent interpretations of the socioeconomic divergence experienced by Italy’s regions. While further research is needed on the link between local institutions and the development of basic education, this work calls for a renewed focus on the way that central policy affected regional divergence and Italy’s overall economic development before the Second World War.
Styles APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, etc.
12

ALBERTINI, Marco. « The effect of changes in Italian household forms on inequality ». Doctoral thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5192.

Texte intégral
Résumé :
Defence date: 19 April 2006
Examining board: Prof. Antonio Chiesi (Università degli Studi di Milano) ; Prof. Colin Crouch (The University of Warwick)(Supervisor) ; Prof. Jaap Dronkers (European University Institute) ; Prof. Maurizio Pisati (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)(External Co-Supervisor)
PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 2017
Styles APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, etc.
13

MINECCIA, Francesco. « La pietra e la città : famiglie artigiane e identità urbana a Fiesole (secoli XVI-XIX) ». Doctoral thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5904.

Texte intégral
Résumé :
Defence date: 7 December 1995
Examining board: Prof. Maurice Aymard (Paris) ; Prof. Carlo A. Corsini (Firenze) ; Prof. Gerard Delille (IUE) ; Prof. Carlo Poni (Bologna, Co-supervisor) ; Prof. Stuart J. Woolf (Essex, Supervisor)
First made available online: 13 September 2016
Quando l'ultimo scalpellino ha cessato la sua attività, ed è cosa relativamente recente, per Fiesole si è chiuso un ciclo le cui origini si confondono con quelle mitiche della città stessa. Una società che aveva mantenuto a lungo, e a dispetto dei grandi eventi della storia, la sua tradizionale fisionomia, che si era identificata si può dire con la risorsa che le aveva garantito per secoli la sopravvivenza, il macigno o pietra serena, ha visto irrompere sulla scena le forze della modernità socio-economica che in breve volgere di anni hanno provocato profondi mutamenti in quella struttura sociale. Oggi l'economia fiesolana, che ancora alla metà di questo secolo fondava le proprie fortune quasi esclusivamente sull'artigianato (rappresentato soprattutto dalla lavorazione della pietra, disponibile in abbondanza nelle numerose cave circostanti) e sull'agricoltura è ormai largamente basata sul terziario, a sua volta dipendente in buona parte dai flussi turistici nazionali e internazionali (come del resto è accaduto in molti altri centri della penisola a vocazione turistica): dalla metà degli anni settanta ad oggi le presenze di visitatori sono aumentate del 300% circa.
Styles APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, etc.
14

ANDINI, Monica. « Essays in applied economics ». Doctoral thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/28024.

Texte intégral
Résumé :
Defence date: 26 July 2013
Examining Board: Professor Elena Carletti, European University Institute (Supervisor) Professor Luigi Guiso, Einaudi Institute for Economic and Finance Professor Franklin Allen, Wharton Financial Institutions Center Professor Diego Puga, Centro de Estidios Monetarios y Financieros.
PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digital archive of EUI PhD theses
The thesis is a collection of essays in Applied Economics. The first essay employs unique Italian data to jointly consider different aspects of the relationship between agglomeration and labor market pooling. The paper looks across all industries from the perspectives of both workers and firms. The study finds evidence of a positive relationship between turnover and agglomeration, evidence of on-the-job learning and evidence consistent with agglomeration improving job matches. However, the estimated labor market pooling gains seem unlikely to account for a substantial share of the agglomeration benefits accruing to workers and firms. The second essay evaluates the effectiveness of a major Italian place-based policy through which the government endorses and finances an industrialization plan proposed by private firms. By using as counterfactuals the areas exposed to the same policy later in time, the study finds little evidence of a positive effect of the program on plants and employment growth rates, which is confined to a small area (municipality) and crowds out the economic growth of the surroundings. The third essay uses the consolidation of Italian municipalities brought about by the fascist dictatorship in the 1920s to gauge the role of the size of local jurisdictions for economic development. It finds that the consolidation was associated with relevant net welfare gains for the communities involved. In particular, the advantages related to the bigger economies of scale in larger jurisdictions overwhelmed the costs owing to the higher heterogeneity. The fourth essay investigates the impact of financial development on the quantiles of the conditional growth distribution. The study presents a growth model showing the quantile effects of finance on growth and provides empirical evidence consistent with the idea that countries in the upper tail of the conditional growth distribution react more than countries in the lower tail to the same financial stimulus.
-- Marshallian labor market pooling : evidence from Italy -- Local development that money can’t buy : Italy's 'Contratti di programma' -- The size of political jurisdictions : evidence from a Fascist consolidation -- Quantile effects of finance on growth
Styles APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, etc.
15

KIRK, Thomas Allison. « Genoa and the sea : ships and power in the early modern Mediterranean (1559-1680) ». Doctoral thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5857.

Texte intégral
Résumé :
Defence date: 5 July 1996
Examining board: Prof. Franco Angiolini, Università degli Studi di Pisa (co-supervisor) ; Prof. Kirti N. Chaudhuri, European University Institute (supervisor) ; Prof. Laurence Fontaine, European University Institute ; Dr. Richard Mackenney, University of Edinburgh ; Prof. Rodolfo Savelli, Università degli Studi di Genova
PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 2017
Styles APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, etc.
16

SCHRAM, Albert. « The impact of railways : growth and development in the northern Italian economy 1856-1884 ». Doctoral thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5972.

Texte intégral
Résumé :
Defence date: 24 November 1994
Examining Board: Prof. Albert Carreras (supervisor, European University Institute) ; Prof. Richard Griffiths (co-supervisor, European University Institute) ; Prof. Peter Hertner (European University Institute) ; Prof. Jeffrey Williamson (Harvard University) ; Prof. Vera Zamagni (University of Bologna)
PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 2017
Styles APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, etc.
17

CHABOT, Isabelle. « La dette des familles : Femmes, lignages et patrimoines a Florence aux XIVe et XVe siecles ». Doctoral thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5741.

Texte intégral
Résumé :
Defence date: 20 June 1995
Examining board: Prof. Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, E.H.E.S.S., Paris (Directrice de Thèse) ; Prof. Giorgio Chittolini, Università Statale, Milano ; Prof. Gérard Delille, I.U.E. ; Prof. Anthony Molho, Brown University, Providence, R.I. ; Prof. Giuliano Pinto, Università di Firenze
PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 2017
Styles APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, etc.
18

TALANI, Leila Simona. « Interests or expectations ? : the problem of credibility of exchange rate policy : an international political economy approach. The cases of Italy and the United Kingdom and their departure from the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System ». Doctoral thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5399.

Texte intégral
Résumé :
Defence date: 22 June 1998
Examining Board: Prof. Mike Artis (EUI) ; Prof. Alan Cafruny (Hamilton College - co-supervisor) ; Prof. Colin Crouch (EUI-supervisor) ; Prof. Henk Overbeek (University of Amsterdam)
PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 2017
An analysis of the extent to which the outcomes of the process of European monetary integration and, particularly, of the development of the debate over the establishment of EMU, have been influenced by domestic politics and by domestic economic interest groups in Italy and in the United Kingdom. From an empirical point of view, the work provides an account of the development of Italian and British socio-economic interest groups towards the issue of European monetary union from the making of the EMS until the establishment of EMU. Argues in favor of the rational behavior of foreign exchange rate commitments within a structural definition of the credibility of exchange rate commitments which links together economic and political science perspectives. Analysis is conducted on the cases of Italy and the UK and their experience in the exchange rate mechanism of the European monetary system. The period considered ranges from the decision of the two countries to peg their currencies in the ERM of the EMS to their departure on September 1992.
Styles APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, etc.
19

MATRINGE, Nadia. « L'entreprise florentine et la place de Lyon : l'activité de la banque Salviati au milieu du XVIe siècle ». Doctoral thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/29619.

Texte intégral
Résumé :
Defence date: 6 December 2013
Examining Board: Professor Antony Molho, EUI (supervisor); Professor Jacques Bottin, CNRS (external supervisor); Professor Antonella Romano, EHESS; Dr. Francesco Guidi Bruscoli, Università degli Studi di Firenze
This thesis was awarded the European Business History Association (EBHA) Dissertation Prize 2014 in Utrecht in August 2014.
PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digital archive of EUI PhD theses
The commercial archives of the Salviati bank of Lyons record the entire activity of one of the most important companies on the 16thcentury marketplace. They also keep information relative to other businessmen and companies on the European scene at the time. This thesis scrutinises the organisation, methods and main sectors of activity of the Salviati bank (exchange, finances and commodities trade) in the middle of the 16th century, at the height of Lyons’ prosperity. It examines mercantile practices in relation to economic spaces and underlines the reciprocal influence of Florentine mercantile traditions and Lyonese economic structures. More specifically, it shows how the involvement of Italian firms in Lyons shaped their choice of business organisation and trade objects and how the strategies of Italian businessmen impacted in turn on the functioning of the marketplace. While the study of the Lyonese branch of a Florentine firm allows to assess its adaptability to local economic structures, the analysis of the activity of the main actors on the Lyons marketplace sheds light on the economic and social processes essential to the good functioning of that marketplace (forms of collaboration between various economic operators and different levels of market integration). This leads to a questioning of many of the hypotheses formulated in the current historiography (mostly, on the basis of local sources), concerning the Italian dominion over Lyons, and a refutation of the vision of market organisation and changing economic conditions that it puts forward. The section devoted to the exchange business, the main field of specialisation of the Salviati bank at the time, challenges the notion of Lyon’s key function in the European system of exchange. The uncovering of previously unknown financial techniques, and of techniques whose use in the space-time frame of this thesis is traditionally denied, brings an additional contribution to the history of banking.
Styles APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, etc.
20

GARCÍA-MONTÓN, Alejandro. « Génova y el Atlántico (c.1650-1680) : emprendedores mediterráneos frente al auge del capitalismo del norte ». Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/32113.

Texte intégral
Résumé :
Defence date: 18 June 2014
Examining Board: Professor Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla, EUI-Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Director) Professor Regina Grafe, EUI Professor Cátia Antunes, Leiden University Professor Maria Fusaro, Exeter University.
While historiography has analyzed the economic rise of northwestern Europe during Seventeenth century, less effort has been devoted to tackle the relative decline of the Mediterranean. Which factors contributed to eclipse the preeminence of south-European merchant-banking networks? How did they react to that shift? This thesis aims at filling that gap by elaborating on the case-study of the Genoese company of Domenico Grillo, offering insight into those questions. The main argument is that the Genoese not only faced increasing competition for the control of exchange circuits but also the reconfiguration of the institutional arrangements that had sustained their previous role as leaders of European financial markets. Challenging the traditional view of decay, this study reveals an astonishing dynamism of Genoese and Italian merchant-bankers in commercial circuits across and within different states and empires, and suggests that these networks adapted rather than collapsed. Furthermore, it shows something perhaps unexpected: the Genoese response went beyond the Mediterranean and encompassed the Atlantic as well. The thesis starts discussing how the Genoese case has been traditionally approached, to then examine the role of those networks in European circuits of exchange. Next, a deep investigation is carried out into the institutional devices supporting Grillo’s business in the Americas, exploring how he collaborated and competed with other actors. The study continues analyzing the trading chains he established across the Mediterranean, Atlantic Europe and the Americas. Finally it focuses on the many times neglected role displayed by the Republic of Genoa in framing the performance of Genoese networks abroad. Using a transnational approach, sources are interrogated in dialogue with the flourishing literature about merchant networks and institutions. Thus, this investigation goes beyond traditional images about the "Genoese capitalism" and revisits one of the axioms underpinning dominant metanarratives about the rise of the so-called "Western civilization".
Styles APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, etc.
Nous offrons des réductions sur tous les plans premium pour les auteurs dont les œuvres sont incluses dans des sélections littéraires thématiques. Contactez-nous pour obtenir un code promo unique!

Vers la bibliographie