European University Institute Library

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

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Genoa's freedom

bibliography

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Matteo Salonia

Empires and entanglements in the early modern world

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"--Provided by publisher

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