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Countervailing Powers
This book will trace the trajectory of the surprising idea that the victims of monopolistic conspiracies should be allowed to fight back using the same fraudulent and immoral weapons as the conspirators. In other words, if left to itself, the market will produce the antibodies necessary to survival, notwithstanding its most sinister pathology – the tendency of its principals to conclude private agreements behind the scenes. Originally conceived in a moral context halfway through the 16th century, the idea was then taken over by the world of commercial law in exactly the form it had been employed theologically. Surprisingly, though, after doing the rounds for over a century, it then disappe...
Networks in the Early History of Capitalism
Drawing on a detailed examination of Venetian commerce in the Middle Ages, this book explores the business practices and structures that enabled merchants to compete in a challenging international market. Contributing to the literature on the early history of capitalism, this book demonstrates how Venetian merchants combined innovation with traditional methods to maintain their edge in a competitive world, providing valuable lessons on resilience and strategic planning in commerce. Small- and mid-sized commercial companies operating across borders and geographies in the early Renaissance period faced numerous challenges, including identifying profitable sectors and businesses, developing eff...
Abolitionism and the Persistence of Slavery in Italian States, 1750–1850
This volume offers a pioneering study of slavery in the Italian states. Documenting previously unstudied cases of slavery in six Italian cities—Naples, Caserta, Rome, Palermo, Livorno and Genoa—Giulia Bonazza investigates why slavery survived into the middle of the nineteenth century, even as the abolitionist debate raged internationally and most states had abolished it. She contextualizes these cases of residual slavery from 1750–1850, focusing on two juridical and political watersheds: after the Napoleonic period, when the Italian states (with the exception of the Papal States) adopted constitutions outlawing slavery; and after the Congress of Vienna, when diplomatic relations between the Italian states, France and Great Britain intensified and slavery was condemned in terms that covered only the Atlantic slave trade. By excavating the lives of men and women who remained in slavery after abolition, this book sheds new light on the broader Mediterranean and transatlantic dimensions of slavery in the Italian states.
1998
Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.
2005
Annually published since 1930, the International Bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The IBOHS is thus currently the only continuous bibliography of its kind covering such a broad period of time, spectrum of subjects and geographical range. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and alphabetically according to authors names or, in the case of anonymous works, by the characteristic main title word. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.
Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism
This is the untold story of how black saints - and the slaves who venerated them - transformed the early modern church. It speaks to race, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Christianity, and provides new ways of thinking about blackness, holiness, and cultural authority.
Selvaggi criminali
Nell'Ottocento il colonialismo europeo andò di pari passo con il ricorso alla deportazione, basti pensare al caso dell'Australia o quello della Guyana francese. Anche in Italia, all'indomani dell'Unità, si immaginò che la deportazione potesse essere lo strumento ideale per sconfiggere i briganti, tanto da essere al centro dell'attenzione del partito colonialista italiano e di molte iniziative di esploratori e avventurieri italiani che cercavano terre da conquistare in quadranti che vanno dal Marocco al Mar Rosso, dal Borneo alla Polinesia. Molti vedevano nella deportazione l'occasione per dare il via all'espansione coloniale e nei loro scritti attingevano a un immaginario utopico che si nutriva dell'idea che i criminali, deportati in lande selvagge, potessero rigenerarsi lavorando la terra e dominando i selvaggi. Fondato su una ricerca d'archivio originale e solidissima, questo libroriporta alla luce un tema dimenticato della nostra storia, di grande attualità oggi con il ritorno delle 'classi pericolose' e del tema del controllo sociale al centro del dibattito pubblico.
