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Dissertation Information for Russell Ives Court

NAME:
- Russell Ives Court

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (2002)

ADVISORS:
- Geoffrey W. Symcox

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Naomi Lamoreaux
- Marga Gottino-Jones

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: The Brignole: Family and relationships, networks and the conservation of trust in el siglo de los genoveses, 1514--1640

Abstract: My study examines the cultivation and conservation of the Brignole family trade network in the contexts of the Spanish Empire and the Western Mediterranean. The Introduction, "Il magnifico Signor Brignole di Genova, The Brignole, and the Genoese Century of the Nuovi ," chronicles the genealogy of the Brignole from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century and examines the political and geographic context of the city of Genoa in the same time period. In Chapter Two, "Merchants in spite of themselves," asserting the central importance of both kinds of partners to early modern commerce. In this chapter I follow the development of the Brignole firm from a manufacturing concern, based primarily on family, to a commercial one based primarily on non-kin and transient same time period. In Chapter Two, "Merchants in spite of themselves," asserting the central importance of both kinds of partners to early modern commerce. In this chapter I follow the development of the Brignole firm from a manufacturing concern, based primarily on family, to a commercial one based primarily on non-kin and transient partners. In Chapter Three, "The Education of Foreign Resident Commercial Agents," I speculate both on the general practices of professional education and on the specific example of the Brignole firm by following the formative experience of Antonio Brignole in Chapter Four, "Nobile fratello carissimo v. Avertendo sempre al ben fidar ," I detail the construction of the language of trust and expectations while considering the rhetorical nuances of the language of trust embodied in the Brignole's correspondence. The dissertation offers a new model for the consideration of trading networks, and proposes that traders ability to engage in short-term, unbonded transactions, hitherto considered impossible, is due to their reliance on networks of ethnically homogeneous trading partners. Finally, in Chapter Five, "Januensis ergo mercator ," I probe the structure of the Brignole trade network in the Western Mediterranean and assert that there is a distinction between long-term affiliates and casual associations that has long been denied by economic theory. I further explore the distinction between long-term affiliates and transitory partners. In conclusion I maintain that both long-term and transitory partners are crucial to long-distance trade in the sixteenth century.

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