Italian Merchants in the Early-Modern Spanish Monarchy (eBook, ePUB)

Business Relations, Identities and Political Resources
Redaktion: Brilli, Catia; Herrero Sánchez, Manuel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

By exploring the enduring presence of Italian businessmen in some of the key hubs of the Spanish monarchy, this book contributes to enrich our understanding of the trading world in the age of the first globalization. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Review of History/Revue européenne d'histoire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351766340
• Artikelnr.: 55265404

Autorenporträt

Catia Brilli is a research fellow at the University of Milan, Italy, and honorary researcher at the University of Seville, Spain. She also works in collaboration with the Bocconi University of Milan. Manuel Herrero Sánchez is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, Spain, and the principal investigator of the research project on the polycentric model of shared sovereignty (sixteenth-eighteenth century) and an alternative route in constructing the modern state.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The business relations, identities and political resources of Italian
merchants in the early-modern Spanish monarchy: some introductory remarks
2. Tuscan merchants in Andalusia: a historiographical debate 3. A Genoese
merchant and banker in the Kingdom of Naples: Ottavio Serra and his
business network in the Spanish polycentric system, c.1590-1620 4. Looking
through the mirrors: materiality and intimacy at Domenico Grillo's mansion
in Baroque Madrid 5. Small but powerful: networking strategies and the
trade business of Habsburg-Italian merchants in Cadiz in the second half of
the eighteenth century 6. Coping with Iberian monopolies: Genoese trade
networks and formal institutions in Spain and Portugal during the second
half of the eighteenth century