TY - BOOK ID - 91742924 TI - The free port of Livorno and the transformation of the Mediterranean World PY - 2017 SN - 0198791585 0191833940 0192509241 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Free trade KW - Free trade and protection KW - Trade, Free KW - Trade liberalization KW - International trade KW - History. KW - Livorno (Italy) KW - Mediterranean Region KW - Tuscany (Italy) KW - Leghorn (Italy) KW - Livourne (Italy) KW - Comune di Livorno (Italy) KW - Libornou (Italy) KW - Circum-Mediterranean countries KW - Mediterranean Area KW - Mediterranean countries KW - Mediterranean Sea Region KW - Commerce KW - History KW - 1500-1799 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:91742924 AB - In early modern Europe, free ports were places where merchants of any nation, religion, or ethnicity could trade on equal terms; and where there were no import and export taxes. This work shows how free trade emerged from the interstices of European commercial institutions by examining the history of the free port of Livorno. ER -