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Tuscan and Genoese Aspirations to Transoceanic Trade (17th Century)
Series: - European Expansion and Indigenous Response, Volume: 48
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Many small, early modern European states tried to follow in the footsteps of their bigger neighbours and expand beyond the oceans. Tuscan and Genoese Aspirations to Transoceanic Trade (17th Century) traces the little-known history of two of these states: the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Republic of Genoa. These two old and prestigious commercial centres found themselves gradually displaced over the 17th century as the centre of gravity of the European economy moved away from the Mediterranean. In an attempt to combat this, Florentine and Genoese elites collected information and reviewed projects, established joint-stock companies, and sent ships to East Asia and the Americas. While their plans failed, their vicissitudes illustrate the mechanisms that stood behind European expansion overseas, and how its results differed widely from expectations.
Giorgio Tosco, Ph.D. (2020), European University Institute, is Research Fellow at the University of Trier, in Germany. He has published several articles and book chapters on early modern trade, with a particular focus on Italy and the Atlantic world.
Acknowledgments
General Series Editor’s Foreword
Prologue
List of Maps
Abbreviations
Note on Currencies, Transcriptions, and Dates
1 Introduction
1 Merchants and Empires: New Perspectives
2 The Merchant Empires of Tuscany and Genoa
3 Managing Long-Distance Trade in Early Modern Italy
4 Local Factors in Global History
5 In Defence of Negative History
2 The First Crisis
1 A World Connected
2 Florentine Interlopers in the Iberian Empires
3 The Spillovers of the Eighty Years’ War
4 An Immediate Precedent: Francesco Carletti
5 Plans and Negotiations under Ferdinand I
6 Conclusion
3 The Second Crisis – Genoa
1 The New Global Scenario
2 Genoese Interlopers in the Iberian Empires
3 A Political Demand for Naval Power
4 The CGIO
5 The CMSG
6 Conclusion
4 The Second Crisis – Tuscany
1 The Transformation of the Tuscan Trading Network
2 Bringing the World to Tuscany
3 Finding One’s Way in the Atlantic Market: Francesco Feroni
4 Plans and Negotiations under Cosimo III
5 An Ongoing Interest in the Wider World
6 Conclusion
5 How to Access Overseas Trade
1 Power or Plenty?
2 The Italian Participation in Overseas Trade
3 Between Companies and Free Agents
4 An Indirect Alternative
5 Aligning Interests in Genoa and in Tuscany
6 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
General Series Editor’s Foreword
Prologue
List of Maps
Abbreviations
Note on Currencies, Transcriptions, and Dates
1 Introduction
1 Merchants and Empires: New Perspectives
2 The Merchant Empires of Tuscany and Genoa
3 Managing Long-Distance Trade in Early Modern Italy
4 Local Factors in Global History
5 In Defence of Negative History
2 The First Crisis
1 A World Connected
2 Florentine Interlopers in the Iberian Empires
3 The Spillovers of the Eighty Years’ War
4 An Immediate Precedent: Francesco Carletti
5 Plans and Negotiations under Ferdinand I
6 Conclusion
3 The Second Crisis – Genoa
1 The New Global Scenario
2 Genoese Interlopers in the Iberian Empires
3 A Political Demand for Naval Power
4 The CGIO
5 The CMSG
6 Conclusion
4 The Second Crisis – Tuscany
1 The Transformation of the Tuscan Trading Network
2 Bringing the World to Tuscany
3 Finding One’s Way in the Atlantic Market: Francesco Feroni
4 Plans and Negotiations under Cosimo III
5 An Ongoing Interest in the Wider World
6 Conclusion
5 How to Access Overseas Trade
1 Power or Plenty?
2 The Italian Participation in Overseas Trade
3 Between Companies and Free Agents
4 An Indirect Alternative
5 Aligning Interests in Genoa and in Tuscany
6 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Specialists and students of global history, the history of early modern European expansion, and the history of early modern Italy.