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Milan undone : contested sovereignties in the Italian Wars / John Gagné

Author
Gagné, John, 1977-
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 452 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Part I. Politics: The temporality of the state -- Urban construction and social control as capture -- Delegitimizing the Sforza -- Part II. Property: Land and ownership -- Protecting and suing -- Document destruction and fraud -- Part III. People: Elite displacements -- Holy sovereignties -- The people.
Summary
"In 1499, Milan was an independent state with a stable government. But over the next thirty years, it descended into chaos amid the Italian Wars. John Gagné details Milan's social and political breakdown. The Renaissance may have been the cradle of the modern nation-state, but it was also a time when sophisticated sovereigns collapsed"--
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ISBN
9780674249936 (electronic bk.)
0674249933 (electronic bk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endowment Note
The Hastings Libraries Endowment
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