From Boats to Donkeys: The End of a Primacy

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Giuseppe Petralia
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2817-8014

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The paper discusses Chris Wickham’s volume (The Donkey and the Boat), placing it within the historiographical debate of the last decades on the economic history of the Mediterranean and central-northern Italy. It highlights the innovative elements in the English historian’s perspective and analyses his model for explaining growth and take-off, advocating future lines of research on the topic.

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Petralia, Giuseppe. 2024. “From Boats to Donkeys: The End of a Primacy”. Reti Medievali Journal 25 (2), 45-75. https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-2214/11334.
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