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Free Trade and Free Ports in the Mediterranean, Hardback Book

Free Trade and Free Ports in the Mediterranean Hardback

Edited by Giulia (University of Venice, Italy) Delogu, Koen (Erasmus University, The Netherlands) Stapelbroek, Antonio (University of Venice, Italy) Trampus

Part of the Political Economies of Capitalism, 1600-1850 series

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How did free trade emerge in early modern times? How did the Mediterranean as a specific region – with its own historical characteristics – produce a culture in which the free port appeared?

What was the relation between the type of free trade created in early modern Italy and the development of global trade and commercial competition between states for hegemony in the eighteenth century? And how did the position of the free port, originally a Mediterranean ‘invention’, develop over the course of time?

The contributions to this volume address these questions and explain the institutional genealogy of the free port. Free Trade and Free Ports in the Mediterranean analyses the atypical history and conditions of the Mediterranean region in contradistinction with other regions as an explanation for how and why free ports arose there.

This volume engages with the diffusion of free ports from a Mediterranean to a global phenomenon, whilst staying focused on how this diffusion was experienced in the Mediterranean itself.

The contributions to this volume bring together the traditional issues of religious openness and tolerance in physically separated areas and the role of consuls and governors, via fiscal techniques, architectural and administrative aspects, with questions about geopolitical balance and primacy. The book will be of interest to scholars in a wide range of historical sub-disciplines (early modern, Mediterranean, global economic, political, institutional, just to mention a few) and to students wishing to perfect their knowledge of the Mediterranean and its global interconnections, and of the origins of free trade.

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