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- Title
Pre-1500.
- Authors
Buylaert, Frederik; van der Meulen, Jim; Verhoeven, Gerrit; Vermoesen, Reinoud; Logan, Tracey
- Abstract
In turn, Barcelona's dependence on the imports of bread grains from other parts of the Mediterranean made that food supply vulnerable to political conflict (for example, Barcelona's conflict with Genoa) and to climatological disturbances. The strip of land that constituted the Genoa hinterland did not lend itself to cereal agriculture, and other industries such as fisheries, silk production and so on were not particularly successful, so that year in year out, desperate country dwellers were drawn to Genoa, as another town that, over the centuries, had developed extensive public services, including the distribution of free food among the poor. The event that dominated academic discussions in 2022 was undoubtedly the invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin's Russia. Rather than a pre-industrial success story, Genoa shows that urbanization in early modern Europe often resembled that of present-day Africa where rural immiseration also creates an enormous push-factor for urbanization (Luigi Oddo and Andrea Zanini, 'The paradox of "Malthusian urbanization": urbanization without growth in the republic of Genoa, 1300-1800', I European Review of Economic History i , 26 (2022), 508-34).
- Subjects
SOLIDARITY; PEASANTS; PAPACY; PUBLIC spaces; PLAZAS; CITIES &; towns
- Publication
Urban History, 2023, Vol 50, Issue 2, p341
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926823000056