Commercial Agreements and Social Dynamics in Medieval Genoa (Paperback)

List of figures; List of tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; 1. From sword into capital; 2. Genoa at the dawn of the commercial expansion; 3. Equity partnerships for heterogeneous ties; 4. Credit network for routinized merchants; 5. Insurance ties for oligarchic cohesion; 6. Conclusion; Appendix A. Sample of prices and income; Appendix B. Sample of long-distance trade participants' occupations; Appendix C. Commenda network graphs; Appendix D. Nodal degree distributions of commenda networks; Appendix E. List of top mercantile nonaristocratic families; Appendix F. Partner selection probability model; Bibliography; Index.