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Tesi etd-06132014-122047


Tipo di tesi
Tesi di laurea magistrale
Autore
MALDARELLA, DAVIDE
Indirizzo email
davidemaldarella@gmail.com
URN
etd-06132014-122047
Titolo
The Italian involvement in the Macao `coolie trade?: the role of the Genoese commercial diaspora in Peru and the Pacific Rim, c.1847-1874
Dipartimento
CIVILTA' E FORME DEL SAPERE
Corso di studi
STORIA E CIVILTA'
Relatori
relatore Prof. Polsi, Alessandro
Parole chiave
  • Peru
  • Macao
  • Genoese
  • China
  • migration
  • indenture
  • coolie trade
Data inizio appello
30/06/2014
Consultabilità
Completa
Riassunto
This thesis examines the participation of a network of Genoese (or Ligurian) merchants in the organization and management of the so-called coolie trade from Macao to Cuba, Peru and other Latin American countries in the third quarter of the nineteenth century (c.1847-1874). Based on archival research conducted in Italy, Portugal, Macao and Hong Kong, the study analyzes the extent and significance of this involvement—so far almost entirely overlooked by the Italian historiography—investigating the individual trajectories of these merchants and their relations within the expanding nineteenth-century global economy.
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