Borut ´erjal, Migrazioni, imprenditorialità e pratiche redistributive di un «distretto mercantile» della Svizzera italiana (XVIII-inizio XIX sec.) = Migration, entrepreneurship and redistributive practices of a «mercantile district » in Italian Switzerland (18th-early 19th century)
Author(s) : Luigi Lorenzetti
Source : https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1408/115782
Abstract:
Historical analyses have repeatedly highlighted the links between migration patterns present in the Alpine area and inheritance practices, pointing to the material and immaterial effects of migration as factors capable of affecting the forms and dynamics of family reproduction over time. Drawing on the case of Vallemaggia (canton of Ticino), an Alpine valley where, during the Early Modern Age, several clusters of family businesses in the regional and international trade emerged, the contribution shows how the merchant-emigrants of this «mercantile district» found in redistributive practices, implemented through donations, bequests and the establishment of benefices, the tools with which to mitigate the centrifugal tendencies of emigration and combine the economy of rent with the economy of charity
Keywords
- Migration history
- History of the Alps
- Commercial networks
- Inheritance systems
- Benefices