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The Two Italies Economic Relations between the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and the Northern Communes
by Abulafia, David
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0521212111
- ISBN 13
- 9780521212113
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About This Item
E-276: Cambridge University Press. Very Good. 1977. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 1977. Xvii, 310 pgs. Map. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (spine label present to the spine). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This book is a study of the economic development of different areas of twelfth-century Italy whose commercial interests were closely inter related: the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, famed for the wealth of its rulers, and the maritime ports of Genoa, Pisa and Venice, which were actively extending their trading interests throughout the Mediterranean. On the basis of largely untapped sources in Genoa and other north Italian archives, this book seeks to explain how the north Italian merchants attempted to extend and to protect their interests in the kingdom of Sicily, by agreements with the Norman rulers or with those in Germany and Byzantium who aimed at the conquest of Sicily and southern Italy. Dr Abulafia argues that the kingdom was a major exporter of wheat and raw cotton, and that in the twelfth century the northern merchants gained a substantial hold over these exports. The Norman kings profited greatly from the opportunity to sell the produce of their realm, and in particular of their own estates, to an assured market; the lack of intensive industry in the kingdom left the northerners free to produce textiles out of southern fibres. Thus signs emerge of two Italies, an agrarian and pastoral south, against a north with incipient industrial activity, based partly on the commercial exploitation of the south. EB; 8.5 X 5.5 X 1.1 inches; 310 pages .
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- Last Exit Books (US)
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- Title
- The Two Italies Economic Relations between the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and the Northern Communes
- Author
- Abulafia, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0521212111
- ISBN 13
- 9780521212113
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- E-276
- Date Published
- 1977
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