Trade and Industry in Early Modern Italy

Trade and Industry in Early Modern Italy

Sella, Domenico

Taylor & Francis Ltd

08/2009

316

Dura

Inglês

9780754659938

15 a 20 dias

Brings together a set of classic essays that reassess the economic fortunes of Northern Italy, in particular Lombardy and Venice, during the 16th and 17th centuries. This title offers information on the economics and society of northern Italy that deals with the major cities, Milan, Florence and Venice, and their celebrated manufactures.
Contents: Preface, Thomas Max Safley; Part 1 General: Industrial production in 17th-century Italy: a reappraisal; European industries, 1500-1700; The iron industry in Italy, 1500-1650; Industrial raw materials in the import trade of Northern and central Italy during the 17th century. Part 2 Lombardy: Contribution to the history of the sources of energy: water-driven spinning wheels in the Po valley during the 17th century; War finance and industry in 17th-century Lombardy; Au dossier des migrations montagnards: i'exemle de la Lombardie au XVIIe siecle; The two faces of the Lombard economy in the 17th century; An industrial village in 16th-century Italy; Profilo demografico e sociale di un comune rurale lombardo: Balsamo nel 1597; Household, land tenure, and occupation in Nrth Italy in the late16th-century; Politica, istituzioni e societA nella Lombardia del cinquecento; Spanish rule in Milan in the 16th century: old and new perspectives; Coping with famine: the changing demography of an Italian village in the 1590s; Wool, paper and iron: industrial production in the Bergamesque valleys. Part 3 Venice: Crisis and transformation in Venetian trade; The rise and fall of the Venetian woollen industry; Index.
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