Between Crown & Commerce

This “carefully argued and well-written study” examines French royal statecraft in the globalizing economy of the early modern Mediterranean ( Choice ). This is the story of how the French Crown and local institutions accommodated one another as they sought to forge acceptable political and commercial relationships. Junko Thérèse Takeda tells this tale through the particular experience of Marseille, a port the monarchy saw as key to commercial expansion in the Mediterranean. At first, Marseille’