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Author Salonia, Matteo, author.

Title Genoa's freedom : Entrepreneurship, republicanism, and the Spanish Atlantic / Matteo Salonia.

Publication Info. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Empires and entanglements in the early modern world
Empires and entanglements in the early modern world.
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Entrepreneurship and Libertà; 1 Economy, Everyday Life, and the Expansion of Genoa's Colonies; 2 The Business Network of Giovanni da Pontremoli and Genoa's Anti-Tyrannical Institutions; 3 Self-Government and Self-Perception; Part II: Spain's "Diabolical" Friends; 4 Ferdinand the Catholic's Perception of the Genoese and of Their Role in His Economic Policy; 5 Rejecting the "Machiavellian" State; 6 Beginnings of a "Genoese Atlantic"?; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Summary 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.
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Subject Economics -- Italy -- Genoa -- History.
Economics.
Italy -- Genoa.
History.
Business enterprises -- Italy -- Genoa -- History.
Republicanism -- Italy -- Genoa.
Business enterprises.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
Republicanism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Genre/Form History.
ISBN 9781498534222 (electronic book)
1498534228 (electronic book)
9781498534215