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

• Autore: Salonia Matteo
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (215 pages)
• Disciplina: 330.0945
• Soggetto topico: Economics - Italy - Genoa - History; Business enterprises - Italy - Genoa - History
• Soggetto geografico: Genoa (Italy) History 1339-1528; Genoa (Italy) History 1528-1789; Genoa (Italy) Relations Atlantic Ocean Region; Atlantic Ocean Region Relations Italy Genoa; Genoa (Italy) Intellectual life
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Genoa's freedom
• ISBN: 1-4985-3422-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792789103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II