Genoa and the sea : policy and power in an early modern maritime republic (1559-1684) / Thomas Allis...
Genoa and the sea : policy and power in an early modern maritime republic (1559-1684) / Thomas Allis...
Genoa and the sea : policy and power in an early modern maritime republic (1559-1684) / Thomas Allison Kirk.
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Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Date
2005.
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N945.18207/1
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English
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xiii, 176 p. : ill., maps ports. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. The Republic Genoa in the early modern world -- 2. The Genoese and the Republic of Genoa -- 3. Public galleys and private interests, 1559-1607 -- 4. Diplomacy and the rearmament debate : the weight of the Spanish alliance, 1607-1640 -- 5. The lure of the world's seas, 1640-1680 -- 6. Galleons, ga...
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Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
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Maryland
Date Published
2005.
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"Thomas Allison Kirk reconstructs the early modern Mediterranean world and studies Genoa's attempts to evolve in the dynamic political and economic landscape. He focuses on efforts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to revive shipbuilding and maritime commerce as a counterbalance to the city's volatile financial sector. A key component to t...
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Genoa and the sea : policy and power in an early modern maritime republic (1559-1684) / Thomas Allison Kirk.
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Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 123rd series, no. 1.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N945.18207/1
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0801880831 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801880834 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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945.18207
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991019900789702626
