Genoa''s Freedom - Entrepreneurship, Republicanism, and the Spanish Atlantic

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.

List of contents

Part I: Entrepreneurship and Libertà
Chapter 1: Economy, Everyday Life, and the Expansion of Genoa's Colonies
Chapter 2: The Business Network of Giovanni da Pontremoli and Genoa's Anti-Tyrannical Institutions
Chapter 3: Self-Government and Self-Perception: Foreign Protectors, Cosmopolitanism, and the Genoese Identity
Part II: Spain's "Diabolical" Friends
Chapter 4: Ferdinand the Catholic's Perception of the Genoese and of Their Role in His Economic Policy
Chapter 5: Rejecting the "Machiavellian" State: Genoa's Regimes from the French Fury to the Second Hispanic-Genoese Alliance
Chapter 6: Beginnings of a "Genoese Atlantic"? Tracing the Genoese Experience in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America

About the author

Matteo Salonia lecturer at King's College London and has previously taught at the University of Liverpool and Manchester Metropolitan University.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Matteo Salonia
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781498534239
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3423-9
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: EMPIRES AND ENTANGLEMENTS IN T; Empires and Entanglements in the Early Modern World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Portugal, European History, Spain, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, Medieval History, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Spain, HISTORY / Europe / Portugal