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English Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Italy (Hardcover, New)
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English Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Italy (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
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This book shows how England's conquest of Mediterranean trade
proved to be the first step in building its future economic and
commercial hegemony, and how Italy lay at the heart of that
process. In the seventeenth century the Mediterranean was the
largest market for the colonial products which were exported by
English merchants, as well as being a source of raw materials which
were indispensable for the growing and increasingly aggressive
domestic textile industry. The new free port of Livorno became the
linchpin of English trade with the Mediterranean and, together with
ports in southern Italy, formed part of a system which enabled the
English merchant fleet to take control of the region's trade from
the Italians. In her extensive use of English and Italian archival
sources, the author looks well beyond Braudel's influential picture
of a Spanish-dominated Mediterranean world. In doing so she
demonstrates some of the causes of Italy's decline and its
subsequent relegation as a dominant force in world trade.
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