Genoa's freedom : entrepreneurship, republicanism, and the Spanish Atlantic / Matteo Salonia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salonia, Matteo, author.

Series:

Empires and Entanglements in the Early Modern World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Italy--Genoa--History.

Economics.

Business enterprises--Italy--Genoa--History.

Business enterprises.

Genoa (Italy)--History--1339-1528.

Genoa (Italy).

Genoa (Italy)--History--1528-1789.

Genoa (Italy)--Relations--Atlantic Ocean Region.

Atlantic Ocean Region--Relations--Italy--Genoa.

Atlantic Ocean Region.

Genoa (Italy)--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 pages).

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2017.

Summary:

"This study examines the history of medieval and early modern Genoa. It analyzes political, economic, and intellectual developments and argues that the Genoese civic character emerged from the entanglement of its unique form of republicanism and its entrepreneurial economic culture"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. Entrepreneurship and libertà

Economy, everyday life, and the expansion of Genoa's colonies

The business network of Giovanni da Pontremoli and Genoa's anti-tyrannical institutions

Self-government and self-perception : foreign protectors, cosmopolitanism, and the Genoese identity

Part II. Spain's "diabolical" friends

Ferdinand the Catholic's perception of the Genoese and of their role in his economic policy

Rejecting the "Machiavellian" state : Genoa's regimes from the French fury to the second Hispanic-Genoese alliance

Beginnings of a "Genoese Atlantic"? : tracing the Genoese experience in sixteenth-century Spanish America.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 6, 2017).

ISBN:

1-4985-3422-8