Creating the Florentine State: Peasants and Rebellion, 1348 1434 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521072922)

This book takes a new approach to the political history of the Italian Renaissance. It examines the Florentine state from its mountainous periphery, where Florence met its most strenuous opposition to territorial incorporation. From a tributary state, which treated its surrounding countryside as little more than a tax reservoir and a buffer against foreign invaders, Florence began to see its own self-interest as intertwined with that of its region and its rural subjects--a change brought about by widespread and successful peasant uprisings, hitherto unrecorded by historians.

Author: Samuel K. Jr. Cohn
ISBN-10: 0521072921
ISBN-13: 9780521072922
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2008
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d