Tuscany in the Age of Empire / / Brian Brege.
A new history explores how one of Renaissance Italy’s leading cities maintained its influence in an era of global exploration, trade, and empire. The Grand Duchy of Tuscany was not an imperial power, but it did harbor global ambitions. After abortive attempts at overseas colonization and direct comm...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (480 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- I. PARASITISM AND SYMBIOSIS
- 1 Finance and the Spanish Alliance
- 2 Cooperative Empire
- 3 The Northern European Alternative
- II. A GLOBAL TUSCANY
- 4 The Uses of Access
- 5 The Shadow Capital
- III. THE TAIL WAGS THE DOG
- 6 The Tuscans in North Africa
- 7 The Plot to Destroy the Ottoman Empire
- 8 Persian Dreams
- Epilogue
- ABBREVIATIONS
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX