TY - GEN N2 - In early modern Europe, free ports were places where merchants of any nation, religion, or ethnicity could trade on equal terms; and where there were no import and export taxes. This work shows how free trade emerged from the interstices of European commercial institutions by examining the history of the free port of Livorno. AB - In early modern Europe, free ports were places where merchants of any nation, religion, or ethnicity could trade on equal terms; and where there were no import and export taxes. This work shows how free trade emerged from the interstices of European commercial institutions by examining the history of the free port of Livorno. T1 - The free port of Livorno and the transformation of the Mediterranean World / AU - Tazzara, Corey, ET - First edition. CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - DG975.L4 ID - 808534 KW - Free trade SN - 9780191833946 TI - The free port of Livorno and the transformation of the Mediterranean World / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791584.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791584.001.0001 ER -