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Feuds and State Formation, 1550-1700 - The Backcountry of the Republic of Genoa (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Feuds and State Formation, 1550-1700 - The Backcountry of the Republic of Genoa (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture
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This book re-evaluates the role of local agency and provides a new
perspective to the political, social and cultural history of state
formation, taking a microhistorical approach and through close
analysis of archival sources between 1550 to 1700. The backcountry
of the Republic of Genoa is a laboratory for gauging the weight and
significance of two elements which, according to Charles Tilly and
other scholars, have characterized the construction of the modern
state: judicial administration and fiscal extraction. The
instruments employed in this respect were arbitration and
compensation. Interactions between center and periphery occurred
within a stratified and discontinuous fabric of fluid jurisdictions
and segmented residential topographies, which constituted spaces of
mediation. Such spaces were generated by conflicts between kin
groups (feuds and factional alignments) and managed both by Genoese
officials and by local notables and notaries, who translated a
whole set of local practices into judicial procedures. This book
offers a rich contextualization of material life, family
relationships, economic activities, and power struggles in a corner
of the Mediterranean world that was extremely important, but about
which very little has been published in English.
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