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La trame incertaine

Autor: Corine Maitte

Número de Páginas: 392

Prato, petite ville toscane proche de Florence, est l’un des prototypes les plus connus des districts industriels italiens qui ont soutenu le dynamisme économique de la Péninsule dans l’après-guerre grâce à leur réseau dense et diversifié de micro-entreprises. Economistes et sociologues se sont naturellement intéressés à cette organisation industrielle alternative au modèle fordiste qui continue à vivifier l’économie italienne à l’heure de la globalisation. Mais les historiens de l’industrialisation, qui ont longtemps insisté sur le retard de la Péninsule par rapport au modèle anglais, ont eu tendance à envisager l’éclosion rapide après 1945 d’une nouvelle industrie dans une zone considérée jusque-là archaïque comme un « miracle ». Or, le miracle a une histoire qui le rend à la fois possible mais aussi un peu moins surprenant. Grâce à une enquête fondée sur les archives des corporations et de l’Etat, les papiers de notaires, les correspondances privées, ce livre retrace le parcours industriel de la ville à partir du nouvel élan des activités textiles au 18e siècle. Acteurs du dynamisme, les entrepreneurs pratésiens : aidés plus ...

Vers une gestion intégrée de l'eau dans l'Empire romain

Autor: Ella Hermon

Número de Páginas: 304

Ella Hermon, Avant-propos. Concepts et paradigmes ; Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi, Pr�face. Acque, terre e paesaggi umani nella storia di Roma; A. Trevor Hodge, Introduction. Reflections on Water; i. aspects de gestion int�gr�e de leau: I.1. Pratiques de la gestion int�gr�e de leau; Mich�le Brunet, La gestion de leau en milieu urbain et rural � D�los dans lAntiquit�; Monique Clavel-L�veque, Gestion de leau et d�veloppement de la colonie de B�ziers; dans la plaine littorale; Sophie Collin-Bouffier, Organisation des territoires grecs antiques et gestion de leau; H�le`ne Dessales, Le prix de leau dans lhabitat romain: une �tude des modes de gestion; � Pomp�i; Maurizio Gualtieri, The Water Supply System of a Senatorial Estate in Southern Italy; (Oppido Lucano, PZ); Alberto Prieto, Les guerres de leau dans lHispanie romaine; I.2. La gestion des risques environnementaux : C�cile Allinne, L�volution du climat � l�poque romaine en M�diterran�e occidentale:; aper�u historiographique et nouvelles approches; Robert Bedon, Les villes des Trois Gaules et leur recherche dune proximit� de leau:; gestion des atouts et des difficult�s cr��es par...

Florence et la Toscane, XIVe-XIXe siècles

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 369

L'histoire de Florence et de la Toscane a été renouvelée en profondeur par la recherche historique depuis une trentaine d'années. Les contributions qui composent cet ouvrage en proposent une synthèse référencée, accessible à un large public. Le livre suit les dynamiques politiques qui ont façonné cet État placé au centre de la péninsule. De la formation lente et périlleuse de l'État de Florence à partir du XIVe siècle, jusqu'à son intégration dans l'Italie unifiée, il en détaille tous les moments (la cité républicaine aux rouages politiques complexes, le long gouvernement des grands-ducs, Médicis puis Habsbourg-Lorraine). Il en présente les acteurs, développe les théories et les représentations qui ont permis de construire et de penser une formation étatique originale. Au moment où la réflexion sur les structures politiques de l'Europe moderne et contemporaine prend ses distances avec l'État-Nation, l'étude de la Toscane suggère de penser autrement les formations politiques d'Ancien Régime, à partir d'une coexistence fondée sur un difficile équilibre entre des instances centralisatrices et la sauvegarde des autonomies des différents corps...

A History of States and Economic Policies in Early Modern Europe

Autor: Silvia A. Conca Messina

Número de Páginas: 247

Why was early modern Europe the starting point of the economic expansion which led to the Industrial Revolution? What was the state’s role in this momentous transformation? A History of States and Economic Policies in Early Modern Europe takes a comparative approach to answer these questions, demonstrating that wars, public finance and state intervention in the economy were the key elements underlying European economic dynamics of the era. Structured in two parts, the book begins by examining the central issues of the state–economy relationship, including military revolution, the fiscal state and public finance, mercantilism, the formation of commercial empires and the economic war between Britain and France in the 1700s. The second part presents a detailed comparison between the different economic policies of the most important European states, looking at their unique demographic, economic, military and institutional contexts. Taken as a whole, this work provides a valuable analysis of early modern economic history and a picture of Europe’s global position on the eve of the Industrial Revolution. This book will be useful to students and researchers of economic history,...

El mediterráneo medieval y Valencia

Autor: Paulino Iradiel

Número de Páginas: 560

La historia medieval de Valencia comienza a estar presente en todos los grandes debates de la historiografía internacional por su aportación novedosa y profunda al desarrollo económico premodemo y al movimiento de las sociedades mediterráneas o por las muchas innovaciones en la cultura política y en la experimentación de nuevas prácticas sociales. En una primera parte el volumen estudia los problemas de historiografía y metodología de la historia social y económica de la Edad Media. Pero en su mayor parte, este libro aborda la explicación del funcionamiento de las modernas economías euromediterráneas basadas en la fuerte movilidad social, en los fundamentos de la cultura mercantil, en la apertura de espacios y escalas más allá de lo local y en las innovaciones técnicas de los hombres de negocios que caracterizan las identidades urbanas.

The Insurance Industry

Autor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On The Judiciary

Número de Páginas: 1036

The Great Transition

Autor: Bruce M. S. Campbell

Número de Páginas: 491

In the fourteenth century the Old World witnessed a series of profound and abrupt changes in the trajectory of long-established historical trends. Transcontinental networks of exchange fractured and an era of economic contraction and demographic decline dawned from which Latin Christendom would not begin to emerge until its voyages of discovery at the end of the fifteenth century. In a major new study of this 'Great Transition', Bruce Campbell assesses the contributions of commercial recession, war, climate change, and eruption of the Black Death to a far-reaching reversal of fortunes from which no part of Eurasia was spared. The book synthesises a wealth of new historical, palaeo-ecological and biological evidence, including estimates of national income, reconstructions of past climates, and genetic analysis of DNA extracted from the teeth of plague victims, to provide a fresh account of the creation, collapse and realignment of Western Europe's late medieval commercial economy.

Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500

Autor: Harilaos Kitsikopoulos

Número de Páginas: 377

Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500 addresses one of the classic subjects on economic history: the process of aggregate economic growth and the crisis that engulfed the European continent during the late Middle Ages. This was not an ordinary crisis. During the period 1200-1500, Europe witnessed endemic episodes of famine and a wave of plague epidemics that amounted to one of its worst health crises, rivaled only by the Justinian plague in the sixth century. These challenges called into question the production of goods and services and the distribution of wealth, opening the possibility of fundamental systemic change. This book offers an empirical synthesis on a host of economic, demographic, and technological developments which characterized the period 1200-1500. It covers virtually the entire continent and places equal emphasis both on providing a solid factual framework and comparing and contrasting various theoretical interpretations. The broad geographical and conceptual scope of the book renders it indispensable not only for undergraduate students who take courses relating to the economic and social life of the Middle Ages but also to more advanced scholars who...

The Insurance Industry

Autor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On The Judiciary. Subcommittee On Antitrust And Monopoly

Número de Páginas: 1418

Le droit de compter

Autor: Serena Galasso

Número de Páginas: 603

La famille et la société florentines de la fin du Moyen Âge sont sans doute parmi les plus rigoureusement patrilinéaires de l’Italie du centre-nord. Les femmes, écartées de la succession paternelle et maternelle, et asservies aux stratégies matrimoniales des familles, disposent d’une capacité d’agir assez limitée.Cet ouvrage revient sur cette interprétation pour la nuancer et l’enrichir d’une perspective nouvelle grâce à l’analyse d’une documentation jusqu’à présent totalement inexplorée : les livres de gestion et de ricordanze tenus par les femmes des élites de la cité.Au cours de leur vie d’épouse et, plus souvent, durant leur veuvage, ces Florentines pouvaient en effet entreprendre la rédaction de registres personnels pour gérer non seulement des biens de famille mais également leur propre patrimoine et consigner tous les actes utiles à leur administration. Par le biais de l’écrit, elles négociaient leurs capacités de gestionnaire et leur rôle au sein de la parenté, et protégeaient leurs intérêts en déjouant les normes de la succession patrilinéaire ; enfin, elles contribuaient activement à la production de la mémoire...

Insurance Industry

Autor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On The Judiciary. Subcommittee On Antitrust And Monopoly

Número de Páginas: 1412

The Lion's Share

Autor: Guido Alfani , Matteo Di Tullio

Número de Páginas: 245

This is the most in-depth analysis of inequality and social polarization ever attempted for a preindustrial society. Using data from the archives of the Venetian Terraferma, and compared with information available for elsewhere in Europe, Guido Alfani and Matteo Di Tullio demonstrate that the rise of the fiscal-military state served to increase economic inequality in the early modern period. Preindustrial fiscal systems tended to be regressive in nature, and increased post-tax inequality compared to pre-tax - in contrast to what we would assume is the case in contemporary societies. This led to greater and greater disparities in wealth, which were made worse still as taxes were collected almost entirely to fund war and defence rather than social welfare. Though focused on Old Regime Europe, Alfani and Di Tullio's findings speak to contemporary debates about the roots of inequality and social stratification.

Measuring Ancient Inequality

Autor: Branko Milanovi? , Peter H. Lindert , Jeffrey G. Williamson

Número de Páginas: 88

Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using what are known as social tables, stretching from the Roman Empire 14 AD, to Byzantium in 1000, to England in 1688, to Nueva Espąa around 1790, to China in 1880 and to British India in 1947. It applies two new concepts in making those assessments -- what we call the inequality possibility frontier and the inequality extraction ratio. Rather than simply offering measures of actual inequality, we compare the latter with the maximum feasible inequality (or surplus) that could have been extracted by the elite. The results, especially when compared with modern poor countries, give new insights in to the connection between inequality and economic development in the very long run.

Face à la puissance

Autor: François Jarrige , Alexis Vrignon , Collectif

Número de Páginas: 413

La question de l'énergie et de ses crises sature l'actualité, les médias, comme les agendas politiques. Grand défi du présent, elle modèle nos modes de vie et nos rapports au monde à l'heure du triomphe du numérique, de l'électrification totale et du changement climatique. Longtemps, l'histoire de l'énergie a été ramenée à l'essor de la puissance rendu possible par le progrès technique, à un processus linéaire qui verrait les sociétés humaines maîtriser toujours plus leur environnement pour en extraire des ressources indispensables à leur fonctionnement. Mais ce récit rassurant, qui n'a cessé d'accompagner la modernité, se fissure désormais à l'âge des crises globales et des inégalités béantes. La croyance dans l'abondance énergétique et la quête de puissance infinie qui la porte se heurtent aux limites planétaires, en dépit des utopies abstraites qui continuent de promettre l'énergie abondante et gratuite pour tous. Cet ouvrage novateur retrace ces débats sur deux siècles en proposant une contre-histoire de l'énergie à l'époque contemporaine, depuis l'entrée dans l'ère industrielle et sa dépendance croissante aux combustibles fossiles....

Climat et société en Europe

Autor: Christian Pfister , Heinz Wanner

Número de Páginas: 608

En 1540, Hans Stolz, vigneron à Guebwiller, décrit le climat, évoquant une chaleur torride et une pénurie d’eau sans précédent qui frappe le pays. Les moulins sont à l’arrêt et de nombreux bovins meurent de soif. De plus, le ciel est obscurci par la fumée des multiples feux de forêts. Un grand nombre de chroniqueurs décrivent cette année de sécheresse, la pire en Europe depuis 1500. De tels récits, complétés par des observations quotidiennes et des mesures à l’aide d’instruments pour les périodes postérieures, ont contribué à la reconstitution des températures saisonnières depuis l’an mille ; un travail pionnier qui a donné lieu à la création de données statistiques auxquelles ont participé les deux auteurs de cet ouvrage. Avec les résultats de ces recherches, Christian Pfister et Heinz Wanner ont pu reconstituer, pour la première fois, l’histoire du climat saisonnier en Europe. Les analyses montrent qu’avant 1900, les hivers froids dominaient, tandis que les étés étaient plutôt équilibrés. Avant l’influence de l’effet de serre d’origine humaine, les fluctuations étaient surtout liées à des modifications de l’orbite...

The Free Port of Livorno and the Transformation of the Mediterranean World, 1574-1790

Autor: Corey Tazzara

Número de Páginas: 363

In the twilight of the Renaissance, the grand duke of Tuscany--a scion of the fabled Medici family of bankers--invited foreign merchants, artisans, and ship captains to settle in his port city of Livorno. The town quickly became one of the most bustling port cities in the Mediterranean, presenting a rich tableau of officials, merchants, mariners, and slaves. Nobody could have predicted in 1600 that their activities would contribute a chapter in the history of free trade. Yet by the late seventeenth century, the grand duke's invitation had evolved into a general program of hospitality towards foreign visitors, the liberal treatment of goods, and a model for the elimination of customs duties. Livorno was the earliest and most successful example of a free port in Europe. The story of Livorno shows the seeds of liberalism emerging, not from the studies of philosophers such as Adam Smith, but out of the nexus between commerce, politics, and identity in the early modern Mediterranean.

Quantitative Studies of the Renaissance Florentine Economy and Society

Autor: Richard T. Lindholm

Número de Páginas: 332

Quantitative Studies of the Renaissance Florentine Economy and Society is a collection of nine quantitative studies probing aspects of Renaissance Florentine economy and society. The collection, organized by topic, source material and analysis methods, discusses risk and return, specifically the population’s responses to the plague and also the measurement of interest rates. The work analyzes the population’s wealth distribution, the impact of taxes and subsidies on art and architecture, the level of neighborhood segregation and the accumulation of wealth. Additionally, this study assesses the competitiveness of Florentine markets and the level of monopoly power, the nature of women’s work and the impact of business risk on the organization of industrial production.

Schiavitù e servaggio nell’economia europea. Secc. XI-XVIII = Serfdom and Slavery in the European Economy

Autor: Simonetta Cavaciocchi

Número de Páginas: 756

Il volume esamina i rapporti di lavoro non contrattuali (schiavitù e servaggio) che a lungo contraddistinsero l'economia europea, sia pure con andamenti assai diversi nelle differenti aree. I saggi in esso contenuti esaminano la evoluzione del servaggio (visto come il lato economico del regime signorile) e delle diverse forme di sottomissione personale, fino alla vera e propria tratta degli schiavi, di cui i mercanti europei furono protagonisti, mettendo in luce una situazione assai più complessa e articolata di quanto gli schemi interpretativi tradizionali lasciassero intuire.

Amianto

Autor: Alberto Prunetti

Número de Páginas: 158

Renato es un trabajador que se cría en la posguerra y comienza su vida laboral a los catorce años. Un obrero que funde electrodos en miles de chispas a pocos pasos de gigantescos tanques de petróleo. Un hombre que respira zinc, plomo y buena parte de la tabla de elementos de Mendeléyev, hasta que una fibra de amianto llega a su pecho. El autor del libro es el hijo de Renato. Vive su infancia jugando al fútbol callejero dentro de la abandonada planta siderúrgica de Ilva, en la ciudad de Follonica, para luego pasar de las certezas del trabajo manual de su padre a la precariedad de los trabajos cognitivos. Alberto Prunetti revive la historia laboral de Renato, el orgullo de quien se sabe dominador de un oficio, la lucha por el reconocimiento del amianto como causa de su enfermedad. Y lo hace desde dentro, sin "paternalismo, condescendencia, obrerismo sentimentalizado o superioridad moral", afirma Isaac Rosa en el prólogo. Una historia terrible y paradójicamente vitalista, ensamblada a partir de fotografías, recuerdos y canciones, a imagen de las máquinas con las que cada día pelea Renato.

El mundo que forjó la peste

Autor: James Belich

Número de Páginas: 853

En 1346 la peste negra llegó a Europa para diezmar a poblaciones enteras a lo largo y ancho del continente entre sufrimientos indecibles. Una catástrofe terrible, una tragedia humana de proporciones bíblicas, pero que desencadenó una renovación cultural y un desarrollo económico de una escala también sin precedentes. El mundo que forjó la peste es una historia panorámica de tales cambios, de cómo la peste bubónica revolucionó el trabajo, el comercio y la tecnología en Eurasia y de cómo preparó el terreno para la expansión mundial de Europa occidental que arrancó poco más de un siglo después. James Belich, catedrático de la Universidad de Oxford en Historia Global, nos lleva a través de siglos y continentes para iluminar una de las mayores paradojas de la historia: ¿cómo pudo tal catástrofe plantar las semillas de ese espectacular despegue? Belich muestra cómo la peste, diezmando la población, duplicó la capacidad económica de los supervivientes y acrecentó la demanda de sedas, azúcar, especias, pieles, oro, esclavos... Europa se expandió para satisfacer dicha demanda y la peste proporcionó los medios. La escasez de mano de obra impulsó el uso de...

Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Autor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On The Judiciary

Número de Páginas: 1020

People, Land, and Politics

Autor: Luuk De Ligt , Simon Northwood

Número de Páginas: 664

Recent research has called into question the orthodox view that the last two centuries of the Roman Republic witnessed a decline of the free rural population. Yet the implications of the alternative reconstructions of Italy's demographic history that have been proposed have never been explored systematically. This volume offers a series of in-depth discussions not only of the republican manpower and census figures but also of the abundant archaeological data. It also explores the growth of cities, especially Rome, and the changing distribution of the population over the Italian landscape. On the rural side it addresses the interplay between demographic, economic, and legal developments and the background to the Gracchan land reforms. Finally it examines the political implications of demographic growth and large-scale migration to the provinces. The volume as a whole demonstrates that demography is the key to many aspects of Italy's economic, social, military, and political history.

Calamities and the Economy in Renaissance Italy

Autor: G. Alfani

Número de Páginas: 385

Italy faced a number of catastrophes in the long sixteenth century. This economic and demographic history follows the consequences of these catastrophes - the action of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse - War, Famine and Plague, all followed by Death.

The Invisible Hand?

Autor: Bas Van Bavel

Número de Páginas: 375

The Invisible Hand? offers a radical departure from the conventional wisdom of economists and economic historians, by showing that 'factor markets' and the economies dominated by them -- the market economies -- are not modern, but have existed at various times in the past. They rise, stagnate, and decline; and consist of very different combinations of institutions embedded in very different societies. These market economies create flexibility and high mobility in the exchange of land, labour, and capital, and initially they generate economic growth, although they also build on existing social structures, as well as existing exchange and allocation systems. The dynamism that results from the rise of factor markets leads to the rise of new market elites who accumulate land and capital, and use wage labour extensively to make their wealth profitable. In the long term, this creates social polarization and a decline of average welfare. As these new elites gradually translate their economic wealth into political leverage, it also creates institutional sclerosis, and finally makes these markets stagnate or decline again. This process is analysed across the three major, pre-industrial...

The Measure of Civilization

Autor: Ian Morris

Número de Páginas: 400

A groundbreaking look at Western and Eastern social development from the end of the ice age to today In the past thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating these questions and provides new tools for assessing the long-term growth of societies. Using a groundbreaking numerical index of social development that compares societies in different times and places, award-winning author Ian Morris sets forth a sweeping examination of Eastern and Western development across 15,000 years since the end of the last ice age. He offers surprising conclusions about when and why the West came to dominate the world and fresh perspectives for thinking about the twenty-first century. Adapting the United Nations' approach for measuring human development, Morris's index breaks social development into four traits—energy capture per capita, organization, information technology, and war-making capacity—and he uses archaeological, historical, and current government data to quantify patterns. Morris reveals that for 90 percent of the time since the last ice age, the...

The Roman Market Economy

Autor: Peter Temin

Número de Páginas: 317

What modern economics can tell us about ancient Rome The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, and the Pax Romana were critical to ancient Rome's prosperity. Peter Temin, one of the world's foremost economic historians, argues that markets dominated the Roman economy. He traces how the Pax Romana encouraged trade around the Mediterranean, and how Roman law promoted commerce and banking. Temin shows that a reasonably vibrant market for wheat extended throughout the empire, and suggests that the Antonine Plague may have been responsible for turning the stable prices of the early empire into the persistent inflation of the late. He vividly describes how various markets operated in Roman times, from commodities and slaves to the buying and selling of land. Applying modern methods for evaluating economic growth to data culled from historical sources, Temin argues that Roman Italy in the second century was as prosperous as the Dutch Republic in its golden...

Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD

Autor: Angus Maddison

Número de Páginas: 796

This book seeks to identify the forces which explain how and why some parts of the world have grown rich and others have lagged behind. Encompassing 2000 years of history, part 1 begins with the Roman Empire and explores the key factors that have influenced economic development in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. Part 2 covers the development of macroeconomic tools of analysis from the 17th century to the present. Part 3 looks to the future and considers what the shape of the world economy might be in 2030. Combining both the close quantitative analysis for which Professor Maddison is famous with a more qualitative approach that takes into account the complexity of the forces at work, this book provides students and all interested readers with a totally fascinating overview of world economic history. Professor Maddison has the unique ability to synthesise vast amounts of information into a clear narrative flow that entertains as well as informs, making this text an invaluable resource for all students and scholars, and anyone interested in trying to understand why some parts of the World are so much richer than others.

Innovation, Catch-up and Sustainable Development

Autor: Andreas Pyka , Keun Lee

Número de Páginas: 430

This volume presents selected contributions from the 2018 conference of the International Schumpeter Society (ISS). The selected chapters in this volume reflect the state-of-the-art of Schumpeterian economics dedicated to the three conference topics innovation, catch-up, and sustainability. Innovation is driving catch-up processes and is the condition for a transformation towards higher degrees of sustainability. Therefore, Schumpeterian economics has to play a key role in these most challenging fields of human societies’ development in the 21st century. The three topics are well suited to capture the great variety of issues, which have the potential to shape the scientific discussion in economics and related disciplines in the years to come. The presented contributions show the broadness and high standard of Schumpeterian analysis. The ideas of dynamics, heterogeneity, novelty, and innovation as well as transformation are the most attractive fields in economics today and offer the most prolific interdisciplinary connections now and for the years to come when humankind, our global society, has to master the transition towards sustainable economic systems by solving the grand...

Peasants and Slaves

Autor: Alessandro Launaro

Número de Páginas: 365

A radical interdisciplinary reappraisal of the agrarian background to the political events which shaped the destiny of Rome (from Republic to Empire). The book actively builds upon the textual and archaeological evidence to trace the fate of the Italian rural free population during a crucial period of its history.

Energy in the Early Modern Home

Autor: Wout Saelens , Bruno Blondé , Wouter Ryckbosch

Número de Páginas: 208

Uncovering, for the first time, the role played by home users in fostering energy changes, this book explores the effects of energy transitions between the medieval and industrial era on the everyday life of Europeans and considers how cultural, social and material changes in the home facilitated the transition towards a more energy-demanding world. This book delves deeper into the interactions between early modern consumers and the ecological constraints of the world surrounding them. Experts on specific aspects of domestic energy use departing from different case studies in early modern Europe confront these central issues. This book therefore offers a wide range of approaches within a long-term and comparative perspective. Different ‘material cultures of energy’ across time and space and across different climates in Europe are explored. Ultimately, this book aims to consider how the early modern home not just adapted to energy changes, but perhaps even prepared the way for our modern addiction to fossil energy. Energy in the Early Modern Home is the perfect resource for students and scholars of early modern Europe, premodern environmental history, the history of consumption ...

Work in Early Modern Italy, 1500–1800

Autor: Luca Mocarelli , Giulio Ongaro

Número de Páginas: 157

Recent decades have seen many economic history books and articles published about working men and women, small and big entrepreneurs, guilds and state manufactures, farmers and journeymen, and children and citizens. Studies have been conducted both at a macro and a micro level, at a global and at a local scale and with regional and national approaches aimed at analysing cultural, social and economic phenomena associated with the world of work. Yet, there is still new ground to be covered. This book aims to fill a gap in early modern history by presenting new insights in the study of global labour history. It considers the whole Italian peninsula as one geographical unit of analysis, encompassing all of the features that characterize labour cultures during the early modern period. It details the evolution of forms of labour in both agriculture and manufacture and the role of labour as an economic, social and cultural factor in the evolution of the Italian area.

Religion, Technology, and the Great and Little Divergences

Autor: Karel Davids , Carolus A. Davids

Número de Páginas: 291

In Religion, Technology, and the Great and Little Divergences Karel Davids analyses the influence of religious contexts on technological change in China and Europe between c.700 and 1800.

Global Perspectives in Modern Italian Culture

Autor: Guido Abbattista

Número de Páginas: 332

Global Perspectives in Modern Italian Culture presents a series of unexplored case studies from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, each demonstrating how travellers, scientists, Catholic missionaries, scholars and diplomats coming from the Italian peninsula contributed to understandings of various global issues during the age of early globalization. It also examines how these individuals represented different parts of the world to an Italian audience, and how deeply Italian culture drew inspiration from the increasing knowledge of world ‘Otherness’. The first part of the book focuses on the production of knowledge, drawing on texts written by philosophers, scientists, historians and numerous other first-hand eyewitnesses. The second part analyses the dissemination and popularization of knowledge by focussing on previously understudied published works and initiatives aimed at learned Italian readers and the general public. Written in a lively and engaging manner, this book will appeal to scholars and students of early modern and modern European history, as well as those interested in global history.

The Force of Fashion in Politics and Society

Autor: Beverly Lemire

Número de Páginas: 285

Throughout history, fashion has emerged as one of the most powerful driving forces determining the political, economic and social ramifications of the production, distribution and circulation of goods. Indeed fashion, especially in relation to clothing and textiles, shapes the relationship between self and society in unique ways. In this light, the collected papers in this volume position fashion as the lens - the critical mediating force - through which to analyse and understand cultural, economic and political shifts within a broad spectrum of societies in Europe, Asia, Africa and America from the seventeenth to twenty-first centuries. Topics include a seventeenth-century failing fashion region, the material politics of marketing American abolitionist fashions, the construction of a fashionable ethos for French perfumes, and the use and meanings of clothing and textiles in the politics of Nigerian silk robes and early modern domestic décor in Europe. This volume represents an important shift in scholarship towards a more in-depth understanding of the role of fashion in early modern and modern times and will appeal to international readers interested in material culture,...

Town and Country in Europe, 1300-1800

Autor: S. R. Epstein

Número de Páginas: 360

This 2001 book was the first survey of relations between town and country across Europe between 1300 and 1800.

The Basic Environmental History

Autor: Mauro Agnoletti , Simone Neri Serneri

Número de Páginas: 268

This book is an introductory instrument to the main themes of environmental history, illustrating its development over time, methodological implications, results achieved and those still under discussion. But the overriding aspiration is to show that the doubts, methods and knowledge elaborated by environmental history have a heuristic value that is far from negligible precisely in its attitude to the most consolidated major historiography. For this reason, this book gives an overview of environmental history as it is an essential component of the basic knowledge of global history. At the same time, it introduces specific aspects which are useful both for anyone wanting to deepen his/her studies of environmental historiography and for those interested in one of the many disciplinary areas – from rural history to urban history, from the history of technology to the history of public health, etc. with which environmental history develops a dialogue.

Recent Developments in Green Finance, Green Growth and Carbon Neutrality

Autor: Muhammad Shahbaz , Kangyin Dong , Daniel Balsalobre-lorente , Ayfer Gedikli

Número de Páginas: 450

Recent Developments in Green Finance, Green Growth and Carbon Neutrality explains the role of green finance in transforming the global economy into a green and carbon neutral one. The book explores the synergy between green growth strategy and green finance policy (2G) and carbon neutrality in an economic-environmental-financial framework that helps readers understand how to design a feasible path toward achieving carbon neutrality through economic initiatives and financial innovations. It shows how to apply the notion of green growth to organizations and illustrates the need for a theory of energy economics that estimates the benefits of a low-carbon transition and carbon neutrality. Sections include historical background, relevant literature necessary to understand topics, the notions of green finance, green growth and carbon neutrality from an economic perspective. Other sections cover models and methods of carbon neutrality assessment, the nexus between carbon neutrality and economic development, green growth and financial development, green finance and green energy exploration and consumption, and more. Two chapters specifically focused on UN SDGs 7 and 13 round out the book, ...

Iberian World Empires and the Globalization of Europe 1415–1668

Autor: Bartolomé Yun-casalilla

Número de Páginas: 531

This open access book analyses Iberian expansion by using knowledge accumulated in recent years to test some of the most important theories regarding Europe’s economic development. Adopting a comparative perspective, it considers the impact of early globalization on Iberian and Western European institutions, social development and political economies. In spite of globalization’s minor importance from the commercial perspective before 1750, this book finds its impact decisive for institutional development, political economies, and processes of state-building in Iberia and Europe. The book engages current historiographies and revindicates the need to take the concept of composite monarchies as a point of departure in order to understand the period’s economic and social developments, analysing the institutions and societies resulting from contact with Iberian peoples in America and Asia. The outcome is a study that nuances and contests an excessively-negative yet prevalent image of the Iberian societies, explores the difficult relationship between empires and globalization and opens paths for comparisons to other imperial formations.

Florentine Patricians and Their Networks

Autor: Elisa Goudriaan

Número de Páginas: 499

In Florentine Patricians and Their Networks, Elisa Goudriaan presents the first comprehensive overview of the cultural world and diplomatic strategies of Florentine patricians in the seventeenth century and the ways in which they contributed as a group to the court culture of the Medici. The author focuses on the patricians’ musical, theatrical, literary, and artistic pursuits, and uses these to show how politics, social life, and cultural activities tended to merge in early modern society. Quotations from many archival sources, mainly correspondence, make this book a lively reading experience and offer a new perspective on seventeenth-century Florentine society by revealing the mechanisms behind elite patronage networks, cultural input, recruiting processes, and brokerage activities.

The Crucible of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warfare and European Transitions to Modern Economic Growth

Número de Páginas: 308

Historiographically this book rests on the fact that European transitions to modern economic growth were obstructed and promoted by the Revolution in France and 15 years of geopolitical conflict sustained by Napoleon in order to establish French Hegemony over the states and economies of Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal and overseas commerce. The chapters reveal that their authors concerns to analyse both the nature and significance of connections between geopolitical and economic forces lend coherence to a collaborative endeavour utilising comparative methods to address a mega question. What might be plausibly concluded about the economic costs and the benefits of this protracted conjuncture of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warfare? Contributors are: Patrick Karl O’Brien, Loïc Charles, Guillaume Daudin, Silvia Marzagalli, Marjolein ’t Hart, Johan Joor, Mark Dincecco, Giovanni Federico, Leandro Prados de la Escosura, Carlos Santiago-Caballero, Cristina Moreira, Jaime Reis, Rita Martins de Sousa, and Peter M.Solar.