The Free Port of Livorno and the Transformation of the Mediterranean World
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2017
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-879158-4 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-879158-4 (ISBN)
In early modern Europe, free ports were places where merchants of any nation, religion, or ethnicity could trade on equal terms; and where there were no import and export taxes. This book shows how free trade emerged from the interstices of European commercial institutions by examining the history of the free port of Livorno.
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.
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.
Corey Tazzara is Assistant Professor of History at Scripps College. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 2011. He has published on trade and consumer behaviour in The Journal of Modern History and in a number of edited collections.
Introduction
1: Livorno and Political Economy in the Late Renaissance
2: Insecurity and Opportunity in the Middle Sea
3: Institutions, Information, and the Invention of Free Trade
4: Governance and Tax Collection in a Free Port
5: Disembedding the Market Place
6: Brokering Trade in the Central Mediterranean
7: Livorno and the Science of Commerce in Enlightenment Tuscany
8: Free Trade Before Liberalism
Conclusion: Expertize, Rent-Seeking, and the Origins of Political Economy
Bibliography
Erscheinungsdatum | 26.10.2017 |
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Zusatzinfo | 45 black and white figures/illustrations |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 163 x 242 mm |
Gewicht | 718 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
Wirtschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-879158-5 / 0198791585 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-879158-4 / 9780198791584 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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