Trade and Industry in Early Modern Italy

Domenico Sella is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of History at theUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.

Contents: Preface, Thomas Max Safley; Part 1 General: Industrial production in 17th-century Italy: a reappraisal; European industries, 1500-1700; The iron industry in Italy, 1500-1650; Industrial raw materials in the import trade of Northern and central Italy during the 17th century. Part 2 Lombardy: Contribution to the history of the sources of energy: water-driven spinning wheels in the Po valley during the 17th century; War finance and industry in 17th-century Lombardy; Au dossier des migrations montagnards: i'exemle de la Lombardie au XVIIe siècle; The two faces of the Lombard economy in the 17th century; An industrial village in 16th-century Italy; Profilo demografico e sociale di un comune rurale lombardo: Balsamo nel 1597; Household, land tenure, and occupation in Nrth Italy in the late16th-century; Politica, istituzioni e società nella Lombardia del cinquecento; Spanish rule in Milan in the 16th century: old and new perspectives; Coping with famine: the changing demography of an Italian village in the 1590s; Wool, paper and iron: industrial production in the Bergamesque valleys. Part 3 Venice: Crisis and transformation in Venetian trade; The rise and fall of the Venetian woollen industry; Index.