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Author : Francesco Balducci Peglotti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book La Práctica Della Mercatura written by Francesco Balducci Peglotti and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sharon E. J. Gerstel
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia
ISBN 13 : 9780884023906
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Viewing the Morea written by Sharon E. J. Gerstel and published by Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viewing the Morea focuses on the late medieval Morea (Peloponnese), beginning with the bold attempt of Western knights to establish a kingdom on its soil. The authors explore how the groups of this contested region--Crusaders, Orthodox villagers, and Venetians--interacted, asserted identity, and recollected the ancient history of the Peloponnese.
Author : Adam J. Silverstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139464086
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Postal Systems in the Pre-Modern Islamic World written by Adam J. Silverstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-21 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Silverstein's book offers a fascinating account of the official methods of communication employed in the Near East from pre-Islamic times through the Mamluk period. Postal systems were set up by rulers in order to maintain control over vast tracts of land. These systems, invented centuries before steam-engines or cars, enabled the swift circulation of different commodities - from letters, people and horses to exotic fruits and ice. As the correspondence transported often included confidential reports from a ruler's provinces, such postal systems doubled as espionage-networks through which news reached the central authorities quickly enough to allow a timely reaction to events. The book sheds light not only on the role of communications technology in Islamic history, but also on how nomadic culture contributed to empire-building in the Near East. This is a long-awaited contribution to the history of pre-modern communications systems in the Near Eastern world.
Author : Catia Brilli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351766341
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Italian Merchants in the Early-Modern Spanish Monarchy written by Catia Brilli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian businessmen played a key role in both international trade and finance from the Middle Ages until the first decades of the seventeenth century. While the peak of their influence within and beyond Europe has been thoroughly examined by historians, the way in which merchants from the Italian peninsula reacted and adapted themselves to the emergence of greater commercial and financial powers is mostly overlooked. This collection, based on a vast variety of primary sources, seeks to explore the persisting presence of Florentine, Genoese and Milanese intermediaries in some key hubs of the Spanish monarchy (such as Seville, Cadiz, Madrid and Naples) as well as in eighteenth-century Lisbon. The resilience of powerless merchant nations from the Italian Peninsula in the face of increasing competition in long distance trade is deconstructed by analyzing the merchants’ relational dimension and the formal institutional resources they found in the host societies. By offering new insights into the mechanisms of circulation of men, goods and capital throughout the Iberian world, this book will contribute to better assess the polycentric nature of the Spanish monarchy and, more in general, the complex system of commercial exchanges in the age of the first globalization. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Review of History/Revue européenne d’histoire.
Author : Roger J. Crum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521846935
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Renaissance Florence written by Roger J. Crum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-03 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the social history of Florence from the fourteenth through to sixteenth centuries.
Author : Kim Ryholt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192523996
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Libraries before Alexandria written by Kim Ryholt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creation of the Library of Alexandria is widely regarded as one of the great achievements in the history of humankind - a giant endeavour to amass all known literature and scholarly texts in one central location, so as to preserve it and make it available for the public. In turn, this event has been viewed as a historical turning point that separates the ancient world from classical antiquity. Standard works on the library continue to present the idea behind the institution as novel and, at least implicitly, as a product of Greek thought. Yet, although the scale of the collection in Alexandria seems to have been unprecedented, the notion of creating central repositories of knowledge, while perhaps new to Greek tradition, was age-old in the Near East where the building was erected. Here the existence of libraries can be traced back another two millennia, from the twenty-seventh century BCE to the third century CE, and so the creation of the Library in Alexandria was not so much the beginning of an intellectual adventure as the impressive culmination of a very long tradition. This volume presents the first comprehensive study of these ancient libraries across the 'Cradle of Civilization' and traces their institutional and scholarly roots back to the early cities and states and the advent of writing itself. Leading specialists in the intellectual history of each individual period and region covered in the volume present and discuss the enormous textual and archaeological material available on the early collections, offering a uniquely readable account intended for a broad audience of the libraries in Egypt and Western Asia as centres of knowledge prior to the famous Library of Alexandria.
Author : Catia Brilli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107132924
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Genoese Trade and Migration in the Spanish Atlantic, 1700–1830 written by Catia Brilli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighteenth century Genoese merchants thrived in the changing Atlantic market. Their trade and migration are explored here.
Author : Bat-Ochir Bold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136824731
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Mongolian Nomadic Society written by Bat-Ochir Bold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the collapse of the socialist system in Mongolia in 1990, Mongolian social sciences was fundamentally schematised in accordance with the prevailing political ideology of socialism, considering the country's history in the theoretical framework of historical materialism, the theory of socio-economic formation, and the feudalism model. Here, however, the author adopts a fresh approach and criticises the theoretical adaptation of the feudalism concept to nomadic culture while treating the history of Mongolia in view of the structural and developmental particularities of nomadic society. The book shows the economic conditions and everyday life of mobile livestock keeping, tribal and political-administrative organisation and the social strata of nomadic society during the 13th-19th centuries, demonstrating that development of nomadic societies in Central Asia cannot and should not be evaluated in accordance with European norms.
Author : Georg Christ
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004221999
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Trading Conflicts written by Georg Christ and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Mamluk and Venetian sources, this book offers a thorough analysis of the various conflicts arising around Levant trade. It demonstrates how these conflicts more often than not cut across cultural divides in Late Medieval Mamluk Alexandria.
Author : Francesca Trivellato
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199379203
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Religion and Trade written by Francesca Trivellato and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although trade connects distant people and regions, bringing cultures closer together through the exchange of material goods and ideas, it has not always led to unity and harmony. From the era of the Crusades to the dawn of colonialism, exploitation and violence characterized many trading ventures, which required vessels and convoys to overcome tremendous technological obstacles and merchants to grapple with strange customs and manners in a foreign environment. Yet despite all odds, experienced traders and licensed brokers, as well as ordinary people, travelers, pilgrims, missionaries, and interlopers across the globe, concocted ways of bartering, securing credit, and establishing relationships with people who did not speak their language, wore different garb, and worshipped other gods. Religion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900 focuses on trade across religious boundaries around the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans during the second millennium. Written by an international team of scholars, the essays in this volume examine a wide range of commercial exchanges, from first encounters between strangers from different continents to everyday transactions between merchants who lived in the same city yet belonged to diverse groups. In order to broach the intriguing yet surprisingly neglected subject of how the relationship between trade and religion developed historically, the authors consider a number of interrelated questions: When and where was religion invoked explicitly as part of commercial policies? How did religious norms affect the everyday conduct of trade? Why did economic imperatives, political goals, and legal institutions help sustain commercial exchanges across religious barriers in different times and places? When did trade between religious groups give way to more tolerant views of "the other" and when, by contrast, did it coexist with hostile images of those decried as "infidels"? Exploring captivating examples from across the world and spanning the course of the second millennium, this groundbreaking volume sheds light on the political, economic, and juridical underpinnings of cross-cultural trade as it emerged or developed at various times and places, and reflects on the cultural and religious significance of the passage of strange persons and exotic objects across the many frontiers that separated humankind in medieval and early modern times.
Author : Mark Häberlein
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813932580
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book The Fuggers of Augsburg written by Mark Häberlein and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the wealthiest German merchant family of the sixteenth century, the Fuggers have attracted wide scholarly attention. In contrast to the other famous merchant family of the period, the Medici of Florence, however, no English-language work on them has been available until now. The Fuggers of Augsburg offers a concise and engaging overview that builds on the latest scholarly literature and the author’s own work on sixteenth-century merchant capitalism. Mark Häberlein traces the history of the family from the weaver Hans Fugger’s immigration to the imperial city of Augsburg in 1367 to the end of the Thirty Years’ War in 1648. Because the Fuggers’ extensive business activities involved long-distance trade, mining, state finance, and overseas ventures, the family exemplifies the meanings of globalization at the beginning of the modern age. The book also covers the political, social, and cultural roles of the Fuggers: their patronage of Renaissance artists, the founding of the largest social housing project of its time, their support of Catholicism in a city that largely turned Protestant during the Reformation, and their rise from urban merchants to imperial counts and feudal lords. Häberlein argues that the Fuggers organized their social rise in a way that allowed them to be merchants and feudal landholders, burghers and noblemen at the same time. Their story therefore provides a window on social mobility, cultural patronage, religion, and values during the Renaissance and the Reformation.
Author : Andre Gunder Frank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Centrality of Central Asia written by Andre Gunder Frank and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eurasian history writing has invariably focused on the civilizations of China, India, Persia, Arabia and Europe. Geographically these regions encircle the wide area of Central Asia, which appears as a sort of black hole in the middle of the world, the home of migrants, monks and mullahs and above all of barbarians. However, the outlying civilizations were formed and even defined through interaction with Central Asia. Therefore, the intent of this study is to demand due recognition of the centrally important role of Central Asians in the history of their neighbours and thus their place in world system history as a whole.
Author : Anders Stephanson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674502659
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy written by Anders Stephanson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an array of intellectual reference points, Stephanson (history, Rutgers U.) has written a serious assessment of this complicated, often controversial, highly respected American policymaker. A work of general significance for a wide range of contemporary issues in foreign and domestic politics a
Author : William J. Connell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520232549
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (325 download)
Download or read book Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence written by William J. Connell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays illustrate the ways Renaissance Florentines expressed or shaped their identities as they interacted with their society.
Author : Hans Cools
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
ISBN 13 : 9065509089
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Your Humble Servant written by Hans Cools and published by Uitgeverij Verloren. This book was released on 2006 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Knoll
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004326014
Total Pages : 807 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book “A Pearl of Powerful Learning”: The University of Cracow in the Fifteenth Century written by Paul Knoll and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America's 2018 Oskar Halecki Award and Winner of the Early Slavic Studies Association 2016 Book Prize The first fully developed history of the University of Cracow in this period in over a century, “A Pearl of Powerful Learning.” The University of Cracow in the Fifteenth Century places the school in the context of late medieval universities, traces the process of its foundation, analyzes its institutional growth, its setting in the Polish royal capital, its role in national life, and provides a social and geographical profile of students and faculty. The book includes extended treatment of the content of intellectual life and accomplishments of the school with reference to the works of its most important scholars in the medieval arts curriculum, medicine, law, and theology. The emergence of early Renaissance humanist interests at the university is also discussed. Winner of the Early Slavic Studies Association 2016 Book Prize for most outstanding recent scholarly monograph on pre-modern Slavdom. The work was described by the prize committee as: "A thoughtful, highly-informed, and nuanced history of the University of Cracow, an important institution in a pivotal period of Poland’s history. Knoll's treatment of such important issues as the role of the University in national life and the controversial and highly technical matter of the impact of Humanism are dealt with tactfully and thoughtfully. The book will become the definitive work on this topic, and will ensure that the material will rapidly be absorbed into general histories of education and of universities in the Renaissance." Winner of The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America's 2018 Oskar Halecki Award. This award recognizes a book of particular value and significance dealing with the Polish experience and is named after the distinguished 20th century Polish medieval historian, Oskar Halecki, who was one of the founders of PIASA. Professor Knoll will be recognized for this award during the 77th Annual Meeting of PIASA in Gdansk, Poland in June 2019.
Author : Mary Lindemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107074436
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Merchant Republics written by Mary Lindemann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the ways in which Amsterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg developed dual identities as 'communities of commerce' and republics.
