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Sicily (Italy) -- Description and travel --- Sicily (Italy) -- Commerce --- Vaughan
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This book is a study of the economic development of different areas of twelfth-century Italy whose commercial interests were closely inter related: the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, famed for the wealth of its rulers, and the maritime ports of Genoa, Pisa and Venice, which were actively extending their trading interests throughout the Mediterranean. On the basis of largely untapped sources in Genoa and other north Italian archives, this book seeks to explain how the north Italian merchants attempted to extend and to protect their interests in the kingdom of Sicily, by agreements with the Norman rulers or with those in Germany and Byzantium who aimed at the conquest of Sicily and southern Italy. Dr Abulafia argues that the kingdom was a major exporter of wheat and raw cotton, and that in the twelfth century the northern merchants gained a substantial hold over these exports. The Norman kings profited greatly from the opportunity to sell the produce of their realm, and in particular of their own estates, to an assured market; the lack of intensive industry in the kingdom left the northerners free to produce textiles out of southern fibres. Thus signs emerge of two Italies, an agrarian and pastoral south, against a north with incipient industrial activity, based partly on the commercial exploitation of the south.
Commerce --- History --- Italy, Northern --- Sicily (Italy) --- -Trade --- Economics --- Business --- Transportation --- -Italy, Northern --- -Sicily (Italy) --- -Northern Italy --- -History --- History. --- -Commerce --- Regione siciliana (Italy) --- Sikelia (Italy) --- Sycylia (Italy) --- Królestwo Sycylii (Italy) --- Sicilia (Italy) --- Sicile (Italy) --- Sicilian Regional Government --- Sicily --- Ṣiqillīyah (Italy) --- Sitsilyah (Italy) --- Sicily (Italy : Territory under Allied occupation, 1943-1947) --- Naples (Kingdom) --- Northern Italy --- Arts and Humanities --- Commerce - History - Medieval, 500-1500 --- Italy, Northern - Commerce - Sicily - History --- Sicily (Italy) - Commerce - History
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This study of late medieval Sicily develops a critique of theories of dependence through trade, and a new interpretation of the late medieval economy. It thus addresses current debates on the origins of modern Italian economic dualism, and on the transition from feudalism to capitalism in early modern Europe. Dr Epstein argues that economic development during this period was shaped largely by regional political and institutional structures which regulated access to markets. Following the Black Death, many institutional and social constraints on commercialization were relaxed throughout western Europe as a result of social conflict and demographic change. Peasants became more commercialized; economic growth occurred through regional integration and specialization. The Sicilian economy also expanded and became increasingly export-oriented. although only a small proportion of its output was shipped abroad before 1500. Late medieval Sicily is thus shown to have been neither underdeveloped nor dependent on foreign manufactures and trade.
History of Italy --- anno 1200-1499 --- Sicily --- Sicily (Italy) --- Commerce --- History --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- Politics and government --- 1282-1870 --- Sicily (Italy) - Commerce - History. --- Sicily (Italy) - Economic conditions. --- Sicily (Italy) - Social conditions. --- Sicily (Italy) - History. --- Sicily (Italy) - Politics and government - 1282-1870. --- Arts and Humanities --- History. --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Królestwo Sycylii (Italy) --- Regione siciliana (Italy) --- Sicile (Italy) --- Sicilia (Italy) --- Sicilian Regional Government --- Sikelia (Italy) --- Ṣiqillīyah (Italy) --- Sitsilyah (Italy) --- Sycylia (Italy) --- Naples (Kingdom) --- Sicily (Italy : Territory under Allied occupation, 1943-1947)
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