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Il Grand Tour dei Cavalieri dell'Apocalisse

Autore: Guido Alfani

Numero di pagine: 221

Un quadro innovativo dei complessi legami tra calamità, popolazione ed economia nel «lungo Cinquecento». Il «lungo Cinquecento», compreso tra il 1494 (discesa di Carlo VIII) e il 1629 data della terribile peste è considerato l'inesorabile preludio al declino dell'Italia. Se è vero che i "Cavalieri dell'Apocalisse" (Guerra, Carestia, Peste, Morte) causarono gravi danni, una lettura totalmente negativa di quel periodo storico non è l'unica possibile: per Fernand Braudel, ad esempio, le Guerre d'Italia non ebbero conseguenze così terribili. Guido Alfani si inserisce in questo dibattito avanzando una nuova interpretazione complessiva del Cinquecento italiano.

Profitti del potere

Autore: Silvia A. Conca Messina

Numero di pagine: 173

Tra il 1500 e il 1800 l'Europa fu interessata da una profonda trasformazione economica: la popolazione crebbe di circa due volte e mezzo, la struttura occupazionale si modificò, gli scambi aumentarono in maniera costante avviando un processo di crescente integrazione tra i mercati a livello globale. L'espansione economica pose le basi per la rivoluzione industriale e per la supremazia economica europea fino al Novecento. Ma quali furono i fattori determinanti di tale trasformazione? Che ruolo ebbe lo Stato? L'intervento dello Stato nell'economia, le guerre e la finanza pubblica rappresentarono elementi chiave alla base del diverso grado di prosperità economica. Un'analisi che contribuisce a fornire una spiegazione più compiuta della 'grande divergenza' di sviluppo tra Oriente e Occidente.

Storia del costituzionalismo italiano nell'età dei Lumi

Autore: Antonio Trampus

Numero di pagine: 238

Non esiste una storia del costituzionalismo italiano nell'età moderna. Eppure è stato il Settecento a rappresentare il laboratorio politico nel quale si verificarono le condizioni per superare l'Antico Regime. Fu allora che si gettarono le premesse per la nascita di una cultura del buon governo basata su un rapporto nuovo tra la politica e il diritto e si giunse a creare uno spazio pubblico ispirato a principi di responsabilità e partecipazione alle decisioni politiche.

Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500

Autore: Harilaos Kitsikopoulos

Numero di pagine: 377

Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500 addresses one of the classic subjects on economic history: the process of aggregate economic growth and the crisis that engulfed the European continent during the late Middle Ages. This was not an ordinary crisis. During the period 1200-1500, Europe witnessed endemic episodes of famine and a wave of plague epidemics that amounted to one of its worst health crises, rivaled only by the Justinian plague in the sixth century. These challenges called into question the production of goods and services and the distribution of wealth, opening the possibility of fundamental systemic change. This book offers an empirical synthesis on a host of economic, demographic, and technological developments which characterized the period 1200-1500. It covers virtually the entire continent and places equal emphasis both on providing a solid factual framework and comparing and contrasting various theoretical interpretations. The broad geographical and conceptual scope of the book renders it indispensable not only for undergraduate students who take courses relating to the economic and social life of the Middle Ages but also to more advanced scholars who...

The Insurance Industry

Autore: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On The Judiciary

Numero di pagine: 1036

Gazzetta degli ospitali officiale per la pubblicazione degli atti del Consiglio degli Istituti ospitalieri di Milano

Numero di pagine: 1744

Fondamenta dei vetrai

Autore: Francesca Trivellato

Numero di pagine: 360

Meridiana 95: Borbonismi

Autore: Autori Vari

Numero di pagine: 289

La questione del Mezzogiorno si è accesa, diventando tema del confronto politico anche in questa complicata legislatura. In realtà si tratta di un problema permanente della politica e del confronto pubblico, che ritorna ciclicamente nell’agenda del Paese sin dall’unificazione, quando la nazione appena fondata combatté la sua prima guerra proprio nell’ex Regno delle Due Sicilie. Dagli anni novanta del Novecento però, anche come reazione all’antimeridionalismo leghista, si è venuta affermando una vulgata che contesta in radice il processo di unificazione nazionale, mitizzando in chiave sudista il governo borbonico delle regioni meridionali. Le idee chiave di questa vulgata si basano su una triplice rivendicazione: il Sud, un tempo felice, sarebbe stato penalizzato dall’unificazione, resa possibile da una violenza brutale; occorre quindi conoscere la sua vera storia, occultata dalla casta politico-accademica, ispirata da vincitori; solo questa duplice lotta potrà far riemergere il Mezzogiorno, dopo un secolo e oltre di sfruttamento e di marginalità. Queste tendenze presero definitivamente forza proprio a cavallo del centocinquantesimo anniversario...

Il Mezzogiorno nel sistema politico italiano. Classi dirigenti, criminalità organizzata, politiche pubbliche

Autore: Aa. Vv.

Numero di pagine: 269

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Macchine o maccheroni? La Cassa per il Mezzogiorno e lo sviluppo economico italiano

Autore: Amedeo Lepore

Numero di pagine: 190

La letteratura sulla Cassa per il Mezzogiorno appare sconfinata: una ricostruzione puntuale delle vicende dell'intervento straordinario, che per oltre un quarantennio ha operato come strumento delle strategie per il Sud, richiede un impegno di lunga lena. Tuttavia, anche senza effettuare una minuziosa cronistoria, è possibile un giudizio più equilibrato su tutta l'epoca dell'azione "aggiuntiva" dello Stato per il recupero del divario meridionale, superando le semplificazioni di molti scritti sull'argomento. Al tempo stesso, una visione di lungo periodo fa emergere un percorso capace di collegare il caso della Cassa, molto controverso e difficile, ma considerato anche un modello tra i più avanzati a livello internazionale, a un tema affascinante e complesso, come quello delle politiche di sviluppo adottate per affrontare i problemi dell'arretratezza economica, nei Paesi meno progrediti, e per avviare a soluzione i dilemmi del dualismo economico, in Italia come in altre realtà più evolute

Annali di giurisprudenza ...

Numero di pagine: 1656

L'Italia alla fine del Medioevo

Autore: Francesco Salvestrini

Numero di pagine: 512

This is the first of two volumes examining some "original features" of late medieval Italy compared to the European reality of the time (the second volume of this collection is curated by Federica Cengarle). On this subject, two conferences have been held, whose proceedings have been published. The first conference, held in October 2000, tried to offer an account, in an introductory section, of the long-term environmental frameworks within which the path of Italian society is inscribed: the rural landscape and the framework of urban settlements, without forgetting, in one and in the another case, the legacy of the Roman world. The second conference, on the other hand - held in the autumn of 2002 - aimed to consider aspects of the history of culture and political ideologies, mentality, religious life, but also the history of techniques.

The Measure of Civilization

Autore: Ian Morris

Numero di pagine: 400

A groundbreaking look at Western and Eastern social development from the end of the ice age to today In the past thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating these questions and provides new tools for assessing the long-term growth of societies. Using a groundbreaking numerical index of social development that compares societies in different times and places, award-winning author Ian Morris sets forth a sweeping examination of Eastern and Western development across 15,000 years since the end of the last ice age. He offers surprising conclusions about when and why the West came to dominate the world and fresh perspectives for thinking about the twenty-first century. Adapting the United Nations' approach for measuring human development, Morris's index breaks social development into four traits—energy capture per capita, organization, information technology, and war-making capacity—and he uses archaeological, historical, and current government data to quantify patterns. Morris reveals that for 90 percent of the time since the last ice age, the...

Past and Present Energy Societies

Autore: Nina Möllers , Karin Zachmann

Numero di pagine: 339

Abundant, salutary, problematic – energy makes history. As a symbol, resource and consumer good, it shapes technologies, politics, societies and cultural world views. Focussing on a range of energy types, from electricity and oil to bioenergy, this volume analyzes the social, cultural and political concepts and discourses of energy and their implementation and materialization within technical systems, applications, media representations and consumer practice. By examining and connecting production, mediation and consumption aspects from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, the book offers an innovative view on how energy is imagined, discussed, staged and used.

A History of States and Economic Policies in Early Modern Europe

Autore: Silvia A. Conca Messina

Numero di pagine: 247

Why was early modern Europe the starting point of the economic expansion which led to the Industrial Revolution? What was the state’s role in this momentous transformation? A History of States and Economic Policies in Early Modern Europe takes a comparative approach to answer these questions, demonstrating that wars, public finance and state intervention in the economy were the key elements underlying European economic dynamics of the era. Structured in two parts, the book begins by examining the central issues of the state–economy relationship, including military revolution, the fiscal state and public finance, mercantilism, the formation of commercial empires and the economic war between Britain and France in the 1700s. The second part presents a detailed comparison between the different economic policies of the most important European states, looking at their unique demographic, economic, military and institutional contexts. Taken as a whole, this work provides a valuable analysis of early modern economic history and a picture of Europe’s global position on the eve of the Industrial Revolution. This book will be useful to students and researchers of economic history,...

Economics, Politics and Prosperity in Restoration England

Autore: Juha Haavisto

Numero di pagine: 291

Drawing on key published works, as well as those of his contemporaries, this book explores the political and economic thought of the seventeenth-century diplomat William Temple and his proposals for change in Restoration England and Ireland. Adopting a revisionist approach, the book explores Temple’s efforts to balance and advance English society during a period of shifting power between England, the Netherlands and France. Engaging with themes including mercantilism, state building and environmental determinism, Temple connected the ideas of antiquity to those of contemporaries while influencing subsequent intellectual currents. As the book shows, Temple viewed humans as curious and greedy creatures, who would stop at nothing unless their motivations and passions could be subdued or diverted. This belief had immediate practical political and economic consequences in Temple’s work: the survival and stability of the polity had to be secured, but he also advocated toleration so that members of society were afforded space to follow their motivations. Furthermore, this led Temple to argue that prosperity could be achieved not only by managing human nature but through practical...

Decisioni del foro toscano inedite dall' anno 1815, all' anno 1819

Numero di pagine: 384

Gazzetta ufficiale del regno d'Italia

Autore: Italy

Numero di pagine: 1360

Tesoro del foro toscano o sia Raccolta delle decisioni del Supremo Consiglio e delle Regie Ruote civili delle prime appellazioni della Toscana

Numero di pagine: 588

La trame incertaine

Autore: Corine Maitte

Numero di pagine: 392

Prato, petite ville toscane proche de Florence, est l’un des prototypes les plus connus des districts industriels italiens qui ont soutenu le dynamisme économique de la Péninsule dans l’après-guerre grâce à leur réseau dense et diversifié de micro-entreprises. Economistes et sociologues se sont naturellement intéressés à cette organisation industrielle alternative au modèle fordiste qui continue à vivifier l’économie italienne à l’heure de la globalisation. Mais les historiens de l’industrialisation, qui ont longtemps insisté sur le retard de la Péninsule par rapport au modèle anglais, ont eu tendance à envisager l’éclosion rapide après 1945 d’une nouvelle industrie dans une zone considérée jusque-là archaïque comme un « miracle ». Or, le miracle a une histoire qui le rend à la fois possible mais aussi un peu moins surprenant. Grâce à une enquête fondée sur les archives des corporations et de l’Etat, les papiers de notaires, les correspondances privées, ce livre retrace le parcours industriel de la ville à partir du nouvel élan des activités textiles au 18e siècle. Acteurs du dynamisme, les entrepreneurs pratésiens : aidés plus ...

Tesoro del foro toscano, o sia, Raccolta delle decisioni del Supremo consiglio e delle Ruote civili

Autore: Tuscany (italy). Supremo Consiglio Di Giustizia

Numero di pagine: 592

The Insurance Industry

Autore: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On The Judiciary. Subcommittee On Antitrust And Monopoly

Numero di pagine: 1418

Quantitative Studies of the Renaissance Florentine Economy and Society

Autore: Richard T. Lindholm

Numero di pagine: 352

Quantitative Studies of the Renaissance Florentine Economy and Society is a collection of nine quantitative studies probing aspects of Renaissance Florentine economy and society. The collection, organized by topic, source material and analysis methods, discusses risk and return, specifically the population’s responses to the plague and also the measurement of interest rates. The work analyzes the population’s wealth distribution, the impact of taxes and subsidies on art and architecture, the level of neighborhood segregation and the accumulation of wealth. Additionally, this study assesses the competitiveness of Florentine markets and the level of monopoly power, the nature of women’s work and the impact of business risk on the organization of industrial production.

Vers une gestion intégrée de l'eau dans l'Empire romain

Autore: Ella Hermon

Numero di pagine: 304

Ella Hermon, Avant-propos. Concepts et paradigmes ; Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi, Pr�face. Acque, terre e paesaggi umani nella storia di Roma; A. Trevor Hodge, Introduction. Reflections on Water; i. aspects de gestion int�gr�e de leau: I.1. Pratiques de la gestion int�gr�e de leau; Mich�le Brunet, La gestion de leau en milieu urbain et rural � D�los dans lAntiquit�; Monique Clavel-L�veque, Gestion de leau et d�veloppement de la colonie de B�ziers; dans la plaine littorale; Sophie Collin-Bouffier, Organisation des territoires grecs antiques et gestion de leau; H�le`ne Dessales, Le prix de leau dans lhabitat romain: une �tude des modes de gestion; � Pomp�i; Maurizio Gualtieri, The Water Supply System of a Senatorial Estate in Southern Italy; (Oppido Lucano, PZ); Alberto Prieto, Les guerres de leau dans lHispanie romaine; I.2. La gestion des risques environnementaux : C�cile Allinne, L�volution du climat � l�poque romaine en M�diterran�e occidentale:; aper�u historiographique et nouvelles approches; Robert Bedon, Les villes des Trois Gaules et leur recherche dune proximit� de leau:; gestion des atouts et des difficult�s cr��es par...

Storia della ceramica di Montelupo: Le ceramiche da mensa dal 1480 alla fine del XVIII secolo

Autore: Fausto Berti

Numero di pagine: 470

Decisioni del foro toscano, inedite dall'anno..

Numero di pagine: 380

Tesoro del foro toscano o sia Raccolta delle decisioni del Supremo Consiglio e delle Regie Ruote civili delle prime appellazioni della Toscana Opera dell'avv. Lorenzo Cantini

Numero di pagine: 482

L'arcipelago del diritto

Autore: Massimo Vogliotti

Numero di pagine: 378

Il volume intende ricordare e far conoscere a un pubblico più ampio i primi dieci anni della «Cattedra Galante Garrone», istituita nel 2010 presso l'Università del Piemonte Orientale grazie al contributo delle Fondazioni Cariplo e Cassa di Risparmio di Alessandria. Intitolata alla memoria di Alessandro Galante Garrone – giudice, partigiano della formazione «Giustizia e Libertà», storico ed editorialista de «La Stampa» – la Cattedra è nata con l'intento di sensibilizzare gli studenti ai valori che hanno ispirato il pensiero e l'azione del "mite giacobino" e che costituiscono l'humus da cui è germogliata la nostra Carta costituzionale. Dopo aver ricordato l'origine, il significato e i contenuti del progetto, il volume propone delle "lezioni", scritte – a partire dai temi dei loro corsi – dai docenti cui la Cattedra è stata affidata.

Con regolata indifferenza, con attenzione costante. Potere politico e parola stampata nel Granducato di Toscana (1814-1847)

Autore: Domenico Maria Bruni

Numero di pagine: 362

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Florence et la Toscane, XIVe-XIXe siècles

Autore: Collectif

Numero di pagine: 369

L'histoire de Florence et de la Toscane a été renouvelée en profondeur par la recherche historique depuis une trentaine d'années. Les contributions qui composent cet ouvrage en proposent une synthèse référencée, accessible à un large public. Le livre suit les dynamiques politiques qui ont façonné cet État placé au centre de la péninsule. De la formation lente et périlleuse de l'État de Florence à partir du XIVe siècle, jusqu'à son intégration dans l'Italie unifiée, il en détaille tous les moments (la cité républicaine aux rouages politiques complexes, le long gouvernement des grands-ducs, Médicis puis Habsbourg-Lorraine). Il en présente les acteurs, développe les théories et les représentations qui ont permis de construire et de penser une formation étatique originale. Au moment où la réflexion sur les structures politiques de l'Europe moderne et contemporaine prend ses distances avec l'État-Nation, l'étude de la Toscane suggère de penser autrement les formations politiques d'Ancien Régime, à partir d'une coexistence fondée sur un difficile équilibre entre des instances centralisatrices et la sauvegarde des autonomies des différents corps...

Storia economica e ambiente italiano, ca. 1400-1850

Autore: Guido Alfani , Matteo Di Tullio , Luca Mocarelli

Numero di pagine: 417

Eurasian Business and Economics Perspectives

Autore: Ender Demir , Mehmet Hüseyin Bilgin , Hakan Danis , Fabrizio D'ascenzo

Numero di pagine: 473

EBES conferences have been an intellectual hub for academic discussion in economics, finance, and business fields and provide network opportunities for participants to make long-lasting academic cooperation. This is the 26th volume of the Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics (EBES’s official proceeding series), which includes selected papers from the 39th EBES Conference which took place in 2022 in Rome. The conference was organized with the support of the Istanbul Economic Research Association in hybrid mode with both online and in-person presentations at the Faculty of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome in Rome, Italy. At the conference, 205 papers by 436 colleagues from 49 countries were presented. Both theoretical and empirical papers in this volume cover diverse areas of business, economics, and finance from many different regions.

Climate Change and Ancient Societies in Europe and the Near East

Autore: Paul Erdkamp , Joseph G. Manning , Koenraad Verboven

Numero di pagine: 669

Climate change over the past thousands of years is undeniable, but debate has arisen about its impact on past human societies. This book explores the link between climate and society in ancient worlds, focusing on the ancient economies of western Eurasia and northern Africa from the fourth millennium BCE up to the end of the first millennium CE. This book contributes to the multi-disciplinary debate between scholars working on climate and society from various backgrounds. The chronological boundaries of the book are set by the emergence of complex societies in the Neolithic on the one end and the rise of early-modern states in global political and economic exchange on the other. In order to stimulate comparison across the boundaries of modern periodization, this book ends with demography and climate change in early-modern and modern Italy, a society whose empirical data allows the kind of statistical analysis that is impossible for ancient societies. The book highlights the role of human agency, and the complex interactions between the natural environment and the socio-cultural, political, demographic, and economic infrastructure of any given society. It is intended for a wide...

Everyday Crime, Criminal Justice and Gender in Early Modern Bologna

Autore: Sanne Muurling

Numero di pagine: 264

Female protagonists are commonly overlooked in the history of crime; especially in early modern Italy, where women’s scope of action is often portrayed as heavily restricted. This book redresses the notion of Italian women’s passivity, arguing that women’s crimes were far too common to be viewed as an anomaly. Based on over two thousand criminal complaints and investigation dossiers, Sanne Muurling charts the multifaceted impact of gender on patterns of recorded crime in early modern Bologna. While various socioeconomic and legal mechanisms withdrew women from the criminal justice process, the casebooks also reveal that women – as criminal offenders and savvy litigants – had an active hand in keeping the wheels of the court spinning.

The Free Port of Livorno and the Transformation of the Mediterranean World

Autore: Corey Tazzara

Numero di pagine: 362

In the twilight of the Renaissance, the grand duke of Tuscany-a scion of the fabled Medici family of bankers-invited foreign merchants, artisans, and ship captains to settle in his port city of Livorno. The town quickly became one of the most bustling port cities in the Mediterranean, presenting a rich tableau of officials, merchants, mariners, and slaves. Nobody could have predicted in 1600 that their activities would contribute a chapter in the history of free trade. Yet by the late seventeenth century, the grand duke's invitation had evolved into a general program of hospitality towards foreign visitors, the liberal treatment of goods, and a model for the elimination of customs duties. Livorno was the earliest and most successful example of a free port in Europe. The story of Livorno shows the seeds of liberalism emerging, not from the studies of philosophers such as Adam Smith, but out of the nexus between commerce, politics, and identity in the early modern Mediterranean.

The Great Transition

Autore: Bruce M. S. Campbell

Numero di pagine: 491

In the fourteenth century the Old World witnessed a series of profound and abrupt changes in the trajectory of long-established historical trends. Transcontinental networks of exchange fractured and an era of economic contraction and demographic decline dawned from which Latin Christendom would not begin to emerge until its voyages of discovery at the end of the fifteenth century. In a major new study of this 'Great Transition', Bruce Campbell assesses the contributions of commercial recession, war, climate change, and eruption of the Black Death to a far-reaching reversal of fortunes from which no part of Eurasia was spared. The book synthesises a wealth of new historical, palaeo-ecological and biological evidence, including estimates of national income, reconstructions of past climates, and genetic analysis of DNA extracted from the teeth of plague victims, to provide a fresh account of the creation, collapse and realignment of Western Europe's late medieval commercial economy.

Florentine Patricians and Their Networks

Autore: Elisa Goudriaan

Numero di pagine: 499

In Florentine Patricians and Their Networks, Elisa Goudriaan presents the first comprehensive overview of the cultural world and diplomatic strategies of Florentine patricians in the seventeenth century and the ways in which they contributed as a group to the court culture of the Medici. The author focuses on the patricians’ musical, theatrical, literary, and artistic pursuits, and uses these to show how politics, social life, and cultural activities tended to merge in early modern society. Quotations from many archival sources, mainly correspondence, make this book a lively reading experience and offer a new perspective on seventeenth-century Florentine society by revealing the mechanisms behind elite patronage networks, cultural input, recruiting processes, and brokerage activities.

The Invisible Hand?

Autore: Bas Van Bavel

Numero di pagine: 375

The Invisible Hand? offers a radical departure from the conventional wisdom of economists and economic historians, by showing that 'factor markets' and the economies dominated by them -- the market economies -- are not modern, but have existed at various times in the past. They rise, stagnate, and decline; and consist of very different combinations of institutions embedded in very different societies. These market economies create flexibility and high mobility in the exchange of land, labour, and capital, and initially they generate economic growth, although they also build on existing social structures, as well as existing exchange and allocation systems. The dynamism that results from the rise of factor markets leads to the rise of new market elites who accumulate land and capital, and use wage labour extensively to make their wealth profitable. In the long term, this creates social polarization and a decline of average welfare. As these new elites gradually translate their economic wealth into political leverage, it also creates institutional sclerosis, and finally makes these markets stagnate or decline again. This process is analysed across the three major, pre-industrial...

Calamities and the Economy in Renaissance Italy

Autore: G. Alfani

Numero di pagine: 385

Italy faced a number of catastrophes in the long sixteenth century. This economic and demographic history follows the consequences of these catastrophes - the action of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse - War, Famine and Plague, all followed by Death.