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Trade, trust, and networks : commercial culture in late medieval Italy / Gunnar Dahl.

Title
Trade, trust, and networks : commercial culture in late medieval Italy / Gunnar Dahl.
Author
Dahl, Gunnar.
Publication
Lund, Sweden : Nordic Academic Press, c1998.

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Description
355 p. : maps; 23 cm.
Summary
Drawing on his study of economics and experience in the export business, Dahl (history, U. of Lund, Sweden) unravels the concepts and practices developed by Italian entrepreneurs from the 14th to the 16th centuries. He discusses literature and historiography, letters, diaries and similar literature, Boccaccio's The Decameron, commercial manuals and similar works, an analytic approach, general and commercial concepts, trust, reciprocity, and networks. He does not include an index. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Subject
  • Geschichte 1500-1900
  • Geschichte 1300-1500
  • Merchants > Italy > History
  • Italy > Commerce > History
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 342-355).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
9189116054
LCCN
^^2001349382
OCLC
  • 41289293
  • SCSB-12568234
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library