Richard A. Goldthwaite, a leading economic historian of the Italian Renaissance, has spent his career studying the Florentine economy. In this magisterial work, Goldthwaite brings together a lifetime of research and insight on the subject, clarifying and explaining the complex workings of...

The results of a decade-long research study by the author, in The Undevelopment of Capitalism Rebecca Jean Emigh argues that the expansion of the Florentine economic market in the fifteenth century helped to undo the development of markets of other economies, especially the rural economy of...

This volume brings together a set of classic essays by Domenico Sella in which he reassesses the economic fortunes of Northern Italy, in particular Lombardy and Venice, during the 16th and 17th centuries

Foreword -- Map: the Italian peninsula before unification (1848) -- Map: Italy, present day -- An overview of Italy's economic growth / Gianni Toniolo -- Italy and the first age of globalization, 1861-1940 / Harold James and Kevin H. O'Rourke -- The golden age and the second globalization in...