Filippo Sassetti on Trade, Institutions and Empire

The Florentine traveller, merchant, and academic Filippo Sassetti was one of the premier economic thinkers of the late Renaissance. Well known for his ethnographic observations, Sassetti was also a commercial writer, original thinker and witness to how Europeans at the margins of empire were beginning to reconceptualize power and wealth.

List of contents

Table of Contents, Acknowledgements, Texts and Translations, Abbreviations, Monetary Units, Maps, Preface: Filippo Sassetti and Portuguese India (Sanjay Subrahmanyam), Chapter 1. The World is a Village? Filippo Sassetti on Trade, Empire, and Institutions in the Renaissance, Chapter 2. Discourse on Mediterranean Trade, Chapter 3. Indian Letters, Index

About the author

Corey Tazzara is Associate Professor of History at Scripps College. He is the author of The Free Port of Livorno (Oxford, 2017) as well as the editor (along with Paula Findlen and Jacob Soll) of Florence after the Medici: Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790 (Routledge, 2019).

Summary

The Florentine traveller, merchant, and academic Filippo Sassetti was one of the premier economic thinkers of the late Renaissance. Well known for his ethnographic observations, Sassetti was also a commercial writer, original thinker and witness to how Europeans at the margins of empire were beginning to reconceptualize power and wealth.

Product details

• Authors: Corey Tazzara, Corey (Scripps College Tazzara, Tazzara Corey
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032316772
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3231677-2
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Political Economies of Capitalism, 1600-1850
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); HISTORY / General, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, Colonialism & imperialism, Economic history, Regional Studies, Colonialism and imperialism, Regional / International studies, Asian History, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Indian sub-continent, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Asia / South / General, HISTORY / Europe / Spain