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A provincial elite in early modern Tuscany : family and power in the creation of the state / Giovann...

A provincial elite in early modern Tuscany : family and...

A provincial elite in early modern Tuscany : family and power in the creation of the state / Giovann...

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A provincial elite in early modern Tuscany : family and power in the creation of the state / Giovanna Benadusi.

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Full title

A provincial elite in early modern Tuscany : family and power in the creation of the state / Giovanna Benadusi.

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Publisher

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Date

1996.

Call Numbers

N306.2094559/1

Record Identifier

74Vvd2Wrw3vA

MMS ID

991005759069702626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

xiii, 259 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Contents

1. The Local Setting: Poppi and the Casentino -- 2. The Emergence of Ruling Families: Patterns of Office Holding -- 3. Dynamics of Power and Authority: Poppi and Florence -- 4. The Wool Industry and Its Crisis -- 5. Bureaucrats and Notaries -- 6. Strategies of Matrimony -- 7. Patterns of Landownersh...

Publication information

Publisher

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Place of Publication

Maryland

Date Published

1996.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

In this groundbreaking study of the interaction between familial strategies of Tuscan provincial families and the politics of the Florentine government, Giovanna Benadusi offers a new understanding of the social formation of the early modern state. The development of the modern state is a central theme of Renaissance and early modern European histo...

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Full title

A provincial elite in early modern Tuscany : family and power in the creation of the state / Giovanna Benadusi.

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Notes

General note

The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 114th ser., 3.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-252) and index.

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Call Numbers

N306.2094559/1

Record Identifier

74Vvd2Wrw3vA

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvd2Wrw3vA

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ISBN

080185248X (acid-free paper)

DDC

306.2094559

MMS ID

991005759069702626

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