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Dissertation Information for Celine Dauverd

NAME:
- Celine Dauverd

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (2007)

ADVISORS:
- Geoffrey W. Symcox

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Massimo Ciavolella
- John A. Marino
- Anthony Pagden
- Teofilo F. Ruiz

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Mediterranean symbiotic empire: The Genoese trade diaspora of Spanish Naples, 1460--1640

Abstract: This dissertation examines the Genoese trade diaspora in the Spanish-ruled Kingdom of Naples from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. This longue durée investigation opens way to a new conception of empire. It examines how Genoese traders and bankers applied their financial skills to penetrate the Spanish economy, and whether the symbiosis between the two created a new kind of imperialism in southern Italy. It shows that Genoese used their community network throughout the European continent to control a large share of commercial activities in the Habsburg domains. Close proximity to Spanish rulers permitted these Genoese families to extend their mercantile empire, while the Iberian Crown benefited greatly from the Genoese financial network in its imperial expansion.

By interweaving economic and political theory with recent theoretical work on trade diasporas this study unearths historical patterns that have both local and global significance. At the local level, it reveals the interplay between the trade diaspora agents and the Neapolitan host society, paying special attention to their relations with other trading nations, the local aristocracy, and Spanish officialdom. At the global level, this work presents Naples and Genoa as vital centers of the Spanish imperial system in the early modern Mediterranean. Thanks in large part to the Genoese trade diaspora, the Kingdom of Naples became the locus for the creation of what I call "symbiotic imperialism." Contrary to the established historiography that regards Naples as a peripheral zone of the Spanish empire, the "symbiotic" relationship between the Iberian Crown and Genoese merchants made Naples a pivotal point in the Spanish imperium, and benefited both parties in their efforts to advance their interests over the highly contested Mediterranean Sea.

The symbiosis between Spanish and Genoese was not just a matter of economics, as much of the current historiography tends to suggest, but that it was underpinned and strengthened by powerful socio-cultural ties. This dissertation analyses guild records, diocesan registers, confraternities' reports and consuls' dispatches to reveal that the religious climate of the Counter-Reformation led both Spanish and Genoese to contribute in important ways to the material and spiritual welfare of the kingdom.

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