Italian victualling systems in the Early Modern Age, 16th to 18th Century / Luca Clerici, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clerici, Luca, editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

Palgrave studies in economic history

Palgrave Studies in Economic History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physical distribution of goods--Italy--History.

Physical distribution of goods.

Purchasing--Italy--History.

Purchasing.

Supply and demand.

History.

Italy--History--1559-1789.

Italy.

Italy--Economic conditions.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Contents

Notes on Contributors

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Maps

Chapter 1: Italian Victualling Systems in the Early Modern Age: An Overview and a Critical Assessment

1.1 Historical Perspectives on Victualling Systems, the Market, and Society

1.2 Victualling Systems in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy

1.3 Systems and their Configuration, Institutional Pragmatism and Variety, Articulation of Circuits, and Plurality of Actors

1.4 Further Perspectives

Published Sources

References

Chapter 2: Complexity and Efficiency: Milan in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Milan and Its State: A Peculiar Case Study

2.3 Supplying Food to Milan: The Urban Consumption of Cereals

2.4 The Broletto Nuovo: An Insufficient Market for City Food Supply

2.5 Other Supply Routes, Alternative to the Broletto Market

2.6 A Fundamental Dimension: Actors and Institutions outside the Marketplace

2.7 The Milanese Annona and Its Organisation

2.8 A Key Point: Price Fixing

2.9 Crisis Management

2.10 Conclusions

Archival Sources

Published Sources

4.4 Urban Provisioning and Officially Set Maximum Prices: Meat and Fish

4.5 Compulsory Transportation and Public Provisioning: Wheat

4.6 Conclusions

References

Chapter 5: Managing Abundance: Victualling Offices and Cereals Merchants in Eighteenth-Century Ferrara

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The Legation of Ferrara and the Cereals Market in the Papal States

5.3 The Congregazione dell'Abbondanza and the Cereals Supply of Ferrara

5.4 Public Interests, Merchants, and Producers

5.5 Conclusions

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

References -- Chapter 3: One City, Two Economic Areas: Wheat and Olive Oil Trade in Bergamo between Venice and Milan -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Urban Institutions and Local Authorities in a Deficit Area -- 3.3 Systemic Recourse to Smuggling -- 3.4 Conclusions -- Archival Sources -- Published Sources -- References -- Chapter 4: Provisioning a Medium-Sized City in a Polycentric State: Vicenza and Venice, 1516-1629 -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Commercial Heart of the City: Market Squares and Municipal Shops -- 4.3 Competing Categories of Foodstuffs Sellers: Cheese.

References -- Chapter 6: The Wealth of Periphery? Food Provisioning, Merchants, and Cereals in the Papal States: The Case of the March of Ancona -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Annona: Origins and Structures in Pontifical Periphery -- 6.3 Making Bread: The Municipal Mill and Bakery -- 6.4 Inside the System: Cereals Supply between the Sixteenth-Century Crisis and That of the Late Eighteenth Century -- 6.5 On the Threshold of the Market: The Monti Frumentari -- 6.6 Inside the Market: Places and Players of the Exchange -- 6.7 The Wealth of the Periphery: A Wealth for All? The Case of Macerata.

6.8 Merchants and Speculators: The Case of Ancona.

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Print version: Clerici, Luca Italian Victualling Systems in the Early Modern Age, 16th to 18th Century

Print version: Italian victualling systems in the early modern age, 16th to 18th century.

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9783030420642

3030420647

Publisher Number:

99987297482

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