Whatever the cost: Grain trade and the Genoese dominating minority in Sicily and Tabarka (16th-18th centuries)
dc.contributor.author | Iodice, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Piccinno, L | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-23T07:03:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-05-31 | |
dc.description.abstract | This work analyses the activities of Genoese merchant communities in the grain trade in western Mediterranean markets. Our goal is to shed light on their ability to integrate into foreign lands, taking advantage of their privileged position within the Spanish Crown. Our analysis is focussed on two case studies, strictly connected from a theoretical point of view: Sicily and Tabarka. Both Genoese minorities living on these two islands used the port of Genoa as their commercial hub. Regarding Sicily, this study has mostly drawn information from a yet unexploited source: general average procedures drawn up in Genoa. General average (GA) was (and still is nowadays) a legal instrument used in maritime trade to share between all parties involved the expenses which can befall ships and cargoes from the time of their loading aboard until their unloading (due to accidents, jettison, etc.). These documents have been collected in an online database soon to be published as part of the ERC-funded AveTransRisk project. They offer valuable insights on shipmasters and merchants, cargo values, ports of destination, wheat prices, etc. All the sources are available on the online database resulting from the AveTransRisk project, of which we are members (http://humanities-research.exeter.ac.uk/avetransrisk). For the trade in North African wheat, we have mostly used documents related to the Genoese ‘colony’ of Tabarka, administered by the Lomellini family. These sources are kept in the Genoese archives as well as in the Archives Nationales of Paris. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | H2020 European Research Council (ERC) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 31 May 2021 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/00076791.2021.1924686 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 724544 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/126508 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2021 The Author(s). Published by informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-nonCommercial-noDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Genoese merchants | en_GB |
dc.subject | dominating minority | en_GB |
dc.subject | general average (GA) | en_GB |
dc.subject | Sicily | en_GB |
dc.subject | Tabarka | en_GB |
dc.subject | Lomellini | en_GB |
dc.title | Whatever the cost: Grain trade and the Genoese dominating minority in Sicily and Tabarka (16th-18th centuries) | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-07-23T07:03:40Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0007-6791 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from Routledge via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Business History | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_GB |
exeter.funder | ::European Commission | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2021-05-31 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-07-23T06:56:00Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-07-23T07:03:47Z | |
refterms.panel | D | en_GB |
refterms.depositException | publishedGoldOA |
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