Feuds and State Formation, 1550-1700 The Backcountry of the Republic of Genoa /

• Main Author: Raggio, Osvaldo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture
• Subjects: Italy-History.; Europe-History-1492-.; World politics.; Economic history.; Social history.; History of Italy.; History of Early Modern Europe.; Political History.; Economic History.; Social History.

This book re-evaluates the role of local agency and provides a new perspective to the political, social and cultural history of state formation, taking a microhistorical approach and through close analysis of archival sources between 1550 to 1700. The backcountry of the Republic of Genoa is a labora...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Local practices and state authority: reflections on the criminal policy of the Genoese oligarchy
• 3. A local universe and its horizons
• 4. The land and residential patterns
• 5. In the Fontanabuona: forms of social exchange and kin group relations
• 6. Circuits of exchange
• 7. The construction of social reality
• 8. Events and political narratives
• 9. Bandits
• 10. Politics within kin groups (1565-1665)
• Appendices
• Index.