English Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Italy

An account of how England's merchants came to dominate trade at Italy's expense in the Mediterranean.

List of contents

List of tables; Preface; 1. Times and places; 2. The ships; 3. Routes and ports; 4. Imported goods; 5. Exported goods; Conclusion.

Summary

This book shows how England's conquest of Mediterranean trade proved to be the first step in building its future economic and commercial hegemony, and how Italy lay at the heart of that process. The author looks well beyond Braudel's influential picture of a Spanish-dominated Mediterranean world and sheds fresh light on Italy's gradual commercial decline.

Product details

• Authors: Gigliola Pagano De Divitiis, Gigliola Pagano De Divitiis
• Assisted by: Stephen Parkin (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.07.2010
• EAN: 9780521580311
• ISBN: 978-0-521-58031-1
• No. of pages: 220
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 515 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Italian H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries