{"product_id":"9781032316772-filippo-sassetti-on-trade-institutions","title":"Filippo Sassetti on Trade, Institutions and Empire","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Florentine traveller, merchant, and academic Filippo Sassetti was one of the premier economic thinkers of the late Renaissance. Well known for his ethnographic observations, Sassetti was also a commercial writer, original thinker and witness to how Europeans at the margins of empire were beginning to reconceptualize power and wealth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Florentine traveler, merchant, and academician Filippo Sassetti was one of the premier economic thinkers of the late Renaissance. Well known for his ethnographic observations, Sassetti was also a commercial writer of the highest caliber—at once an original thinker and a remarkable witness to how Europeans even at the margins of empire were beginning to reconceptualize power and wealth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnique among commercial theorists of the period, Sassetti offers a first-hand perspective on commerce in both the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. This volume translates (for the first time) the \u003ci\u003eDiscourse on Mediterranean Trade \u003c\/i\u003eand a selection of the principal \u003ci\u003eIndian Letters\u003c\/i\u003e, with extensive historical notes. These are preceded by a lengthy essay positioning Sassetti as a figure in late Renaissance political economy. It makes the case that Sassetti was an early theorist of what might be termed the pragmatic tradition of free trade—in his case, a project linked to his analysis of commercial institutions in the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvoking an invaluable overview of trade in the Indian Ocean in the late sixteenth century, this volume is an excellent specialist text for postgraduate students and professional historians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54859077484918,"sku":"9781032316772","price":48.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31783977.jpg?v=1734595923","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781032316772-filippo-sassetti-on-trade-institutions","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}