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The Question of Economic Decline in Seventeenth‐Century Italy: Myth or Reality?
Author(s) -
D’Amico Stefano
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2004.00103.x
Subject(s) - mythology , historiography , history , economic history , economic thought , economy , psychology , political science , economics , political economy , classics , archaeology
Was the Italian economic crisis of the seventeenth century an irreversible decline or a readjustment of the socio‐economic structures? Did the prosperous Italian cities lose forever their economic role or were they able to adapt to the changing demands of the international markets? This article examines the main phases of the historiographical debate on these issues from its beginning in the 1950s to the most recent developments.