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Genoa’s Freedom: Entrepreneurship, Republicanism, and the Spanish Atlantic

My new book 'Genoa’s Freedom: Entrepreneurship, Republicanism, and the Spanish Atlantic' is the result of many years of work. It all started one day at the Newberry Library, in Chicago, where I found a sixteenth-century account book of taxes paid in Peru to the Spanish monarchy.

Posted on: 14 June 2017