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Trade, trust, and networks : commercial culture in late Medieval Italy / Gunnar Dahl.
Lippincott Library HF3585 .D355x 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dahl, Gunnar.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Merchants--Italy--History.
- Merchants.
- Commerce.
- History.
- Italy--Commerce--History.
- Italy.
- Physical Description:
- 355 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lund : Nordic Academic Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- Drawing on his study of economics and experience in the export business, Dahl (history, U. of Lund, Sweden) unravels the concepts and practices developed by Italian entrepreneurs from the 14th to the 16th centuries. He discusses literature and historiography, letters, diaries and similar literature, Boccaccio's The Decameron, commercial manuals and similar works, an analytic approach, general and commercial concepts, trust, reciprocity, and networks. He does not include an index. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-355).
- ISBN:
- 9189116054
- OCLC:
- 41289293
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