Free Trade and Free Ports in the Mediterranean (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Delogu, Giulia; Trampus, Antonio; Stapelbroek, Koen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the atypical history and conditions of the Mediterranean region in contradistinction with other regions as an explanation for how and why free ports arose there.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040093542
• Artikelnr.: 70654570

Autorenporträt

Giulia Delogu is Assistant Professor of Early Modern History at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Her main research interest is political communication and the reciprocal influences between information and institutional changes. A second research field is the construction of images of economic and political power starting from the case of Napoleon. Her latest monograph is L'emporio delle parole. Costruire l'informazione nei porti franchi d'età moderna (2017). She published several articles in Past & Present, History of European Ideas, Studi Storici, Rivista Storica Italiana , and Società e Storia. Koen Stapelbroek is Professor of Humanities and Dean of the College of Arts, Society and Education at James Cook University. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge (2004) and published widely in the field of European eighteenth-century political thought and intellectual history. His research focuses on the history of political thought, global aspects of political economy and trade, as well as their legal, cultural, and institutional dynamics. Antonio Trampus is Professor of Early Modern History at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. His scholarly interests cover European and International history from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, and the impact of Enlightenment's legacy in the Mediterranean area, in Europe, and in the Americas. He is interested particularly in the free ports of the Adriatic and Mediterranean. His recent publications include the edited volume, with Koen Stapelbroek, The Legacy of Vattel's Droit des gens (2019), and Emer de Vattel and the Politics of Good Government: Constitutionalism, Small States and the International System (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1
The history of Mediterranean free ports as the invention of free trade?
Koen Stapelbroek and Antonio Trampus
Chapter 2
Ports and free ports in the Old World: political economy in the
Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean (1500-1750)
Corey Tazzara
Chapter 3
What is a free port? The shaping of the concept in dictionaries, edicts,
and governance
Giulia Delogu
Chapter 4
Free ports in a controlled market: Ancona, Livorno, Genoa, and Trieste in
the eighteenth-century Italian grain trade
Giulio Ongaro
Chapter 5
Territorial control, economic provision, and republican order: the free
port of Genoa from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century
Paolo Calcagno
Chapter 6
English perspectives on Genova and Livorno: rivalry and complementarity
between two eighteenth-century free ports
Danilo Pedemonte
Chapter 7
The free port of Nice-Villafranca and Savoy maritime politics in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Luca Lo Basso
Chapter 8
'Dire straits': the free ports of Tangier and Gibraltar in the English
Mediterranean
Francesca Savoldi
Chapter 9
The British debate on Mediterranean free ports: Livorno, Gibraltar, and
Port Mahon (1712-1783)
Antonella Alimento
Chapter 10
A 'source of gold and prosperity'? The Neapolitan free-port debate from the
fifteenth to the nineteenth century
Antonio Iodice
Chapter 11
The free port of Messina in the ancien régime: spaces, institutions, and
practices
Ida Fazio and Rita Foti
Chapter 12
Free trade and the ghost story of the Bourbon alliance: Spain, free ports,
and the Mediterranean Sea (1648-1765)
Edward Jones Corredera
Chapter 13
The evils of 'beguiling Liberty': a comparative perspective on free ports
in a manuscript by Manuel María Gutiérrez (1830)
Marcella Aglietti
Chapter 14
The Habsburg portchain: a decentralised empire in the eighteenth century
David Do Paço
Chapter 15
The evolution of the free port of Trieste from 1717 to the present
Daniele Andreozzi