Marsilio, Claudio - In: The journal of European economic history 50 (2021) 2, pp. 57-87
Classical historiography treats the years 1650-1700 as pivotal in the movement of the centre of international finance first to Amsterdam and then, at the beginning of the 18th century, to London. The Mediterranean Sea, as theorised by Fernanc Braudel's "world-economy" model, was relegated to a...