Nicholas Scott Baker

Broschiertes Buch

In Fortune's Theater

Beschreibung

This innovative cultural history of financial risk-taking in Renaissance Italy explores the rich interchanges between mercantile and intellectual cultures in Italian society and demonstrates important shifts in attitudes towards time, decision making about the future and risk-taking during the Renaissance.

Autor

Nicholas Scott Baker is Associate Professor of History at Macquarie University. He is the author of The Fruit of Liberty: Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480-1550 (2013), several articles and book chapters, and co-editor of two volumes of essays on Italian Renaissance society and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9781108826945
• ISBN-10: 1108826946
• Artikelnr.: 68271421