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Leading the Economic Risorgimento: Lombardy in the 19th Century book cover

1st Edition

Leading the Economic Risorgimento Lombardy in the 19th Century

Edited By Silvia A. Conca Messina Copyright 2022
376 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

376 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

376 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Lombardy, with about 10 million inhabitants, is today the most populated and prosperous region of Italy, and Milan is a renowned capital of art, fashion and design. During the 19th century until WWI, the region gradually became the leader in Italy’s economic development and distinguished itself in the European economic landscape for its long-standing industrial strength and diversified economy,... Read more

PART I: Features and Evolution of the Regional Economy: an Introduction

1. Lombardy’s development in the long 19th Century

Silvia A. Conca Messina

PART II: The Economic Area: Agriculture, Trade, Industry

2. Production Systems in Agriculture

Gianpiero Fumi

3. Lombardy’s Food industries in the Italian context: An Overview 1870-1914

Silvia A. Conca Messina

4. Towards the Consolidation of an Economic Region: Cities, Trade and Transport

Luca Mocarelli

5. Silk as the Leading Factor of Development

Roberto Tolaini

6. The Cotton Industry 1815-1914

Silvia A. Conca Messina

7. Iron and Metalworking

Sergio Onger and Valerio Varini

8. New Industries (1861-1914)

Andrea Colli and Ilaria Suffia

9. Fashion: Production, Commercialization and Consumption

Elisabetta Merlo

PART III : The Economic Players: Business, Finance, Institutions

10. The Economic and Social Rise of Milan’s Mercantile Community (1700-1859)

Stefano Levati

11. Noblemen in Business

Silvia A. Conca Messina

12. Sketching the very Wealthy: Men and Women of Property (1861-1900)

Stefania Licini

13. The Informal Banking Systems. A Mosaic between 19th and early 20th centuries

Pietro Cafaro

14. The Regional Financial System: Institutional Varieties and Complementarity (1861- 1914)

Giandomenico Piluso

15. Institutions and Agrarian Development. Fiscal Policies and Statistical Enquiries

Andrea M. Locatelli and Paolo Tedeschi

16. Church, Religious Orders and Congregations, Catholic movement

Giovanni Gregorini

17. Education, Institutions and Industrial Development

Giorgio Bigatti

Biography

Silvia A. Conca Messina is an Assistant Professor of Economic History in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Milan, Italy.

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