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Commercial agreements and social dynamics in medieval Genoa /
Commercial Agreements and Social Dynamics in Medieval Genoa is an empirical study of medieval long-distance trade agreements and the surrounding social dynamics that transformed the feudal organization of men-of-arms into the world of Renaissance merchants. Drawing on 20,000 notarial records, the bo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge Univ. Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Commercial Agreements and Social Dynamics in Medieval Genoa is an empirical study of medieval long-distance trade agreements and the surrounding social dynamics that transformed the feudal organization of men-of-arms into the world of Renaissance merchants. Drawing on 20,000 notarial records, the book traces the commercial partnerships of thousands of people in Genoa from 1150 to 1435 and reports social activity on a scale that is unprecedented for such an early period of history. In combining a detailed historical reading with network modeling to analyze the change in the long-distance trade relationships, Quentin van Doosselaere challenges the prevailing western-centric view of development. He demonstrates that the history of the three main medieval economic frameworks that brought about European capitalism - equity, credit, and insurance - was not driven by strategic merchants' economic optimizations but rather by a change in partners' selections that reflected the dynamic of the social structure as a whole. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 262 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-254) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511517907 0511517904 0521897920 9780521897921 1107201969 9781107201965 1107404290 9781107404298 1282103857 9781282103856 9786612103858 661210385X 0511576420 9780511576423 0511515405 9780511515408 0511514360 9780511514364 0511516681 9780511516689 |