An Island for Itself: Economic Development and Social Change in Late Medieval Sicily - Brossura

Epstein, Stephan R.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521525071 ISBN 13: 9780521525077

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Riassunto

Late medeival Sicily is shown to have been neither underdeveloped nor dependent on foreign trade.

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Descrizione del libro

This study of late medieval Sicily develops a critique of theories of dependence through trade, and a new interpretation of the late medieval economy. 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.

Contenuti

List of maps; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Currency and measurements; Chronology; 1. Introduction: the historiography and the sources; 2. Regional geographic and demographic differentiation; 3. Market structures and regional specialization; 4. Sicily and its regions: economic growth and specialization; 5. Sicily and its regions: Eastern val Demone and the southern mainland; 6. Foreign trade and the domestic economy; 7. Income distribution, social conflict and the Sicilian state; 8. A further question: the origins of Sicilian underdevelopment; Bibliography; Index.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521525071
• ISBN 13: 9780521525077
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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