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Book SynopsisHow did free trade emerge in early-modern times? How did the Mediterranean as a specific region â with its own historical characteristics â produce a culture in which the free port appeared? What was the relation between the type of free trade created in early-modern Italy and the development of global trade and commercial competition between states for hegemony in the eighteenth century? And how did the position of the free port, originally a Mediterranean âinventionâ, develop over the course of time? The contributions to this volume address these questions and explain the institutional genealogy of the free port.
Free Trade and Free Ports in the Mediterranean analyses the atypical history and conditions of the Mediterranean region in contradistinction with other regions as an explanation for how and why free ports arose there. This volume engages with the diffusion of free ports from a Mediterranean to a global phenomenon, whilst staying focused on how this diffusion
