FUSARO Maria

Associate Professor – University of Exeter (United-Kingdom)

Director - Centre for Maritime Historical Studies (United-Kingdom)

Modern Period BIOGRAPHY

Maria Fusaro graduated from the Università di Venezia Ca’ Foscari, and then moved to Cambridge where she completed her PhD in 2002. After a Junior Research Fellowship at St. Hugh’s College at Oxford, she was Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. At the University of Exeter since 2006 she is presently Associate Professor (Reader) in Early Modern European History and she directs the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies (http://centres.exeter.ac.uk/cmhs/). Her research interests lie in the social and economic history of Early Modern Europe. Her major area of expertise is the history of Italy (especially the Venetian Republic) and the Mediterranean between the 15th and 18th centuries. Her research has focused mostly on the trade between the Mediterranean and the north of Europe, mercantile networks, and the history of the Venetian dominions in Greece. Between 2012 and 2014, under the aegis of an ERC Starting Grant, she worked on Sailing into Modernity: Comparative Perspectives on the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century European Economic Transition, a comparative study of contractual conditions and economic treatment of sailors in the 16th and 17th century Mediterranean. She is currently working within La reconfiguration de l’espace méditerranéen: échanges interculturels et pragmatique du droit en Méditerranée, XVe-début XIXe siècle an interdisciplinary research project chaired by Wolfgang Kaiser (Paris 1/EHESS, Paris), funded through the ERC Advanced Grant Scheme (2012-2016). BIBLIOGRAPHY She is the author of several publications including:

• Political Economies of Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean: The Decline of Venice and the Rise of England 1450-1700 (Cambridge, 2015);

• Reti commerciali e traffici globali in eta' moderna (Rome-Bari, 2008); • L’uva passa. Una guerra commerciale tra Venezia e l’Inghilterra, 1540-1640 (Venice, 1997).

She has co-edited

• with B. Allaire, R. Blakemore, T. Vanneste, Labour, Law and Empire: Comparative Perspectives on Seafarers, c. 1500-1800 (London-New York, 2015);

• with C. Heywood and M.-S. Omri, Trade and Cultural Exchange in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Braudel’s Maritime Legacy (London, 2010)

• with Á. Polonia, Maritime History as Global History (St. John’s, 2011). Amongst her articles:

• ‘Public Service and Private Trade: Northern Seamen in Seventeenth Century Venetian Courts of Justice’, The International Journal of Maritime History, 27 (2015): 3-25;

• ‘Politics of justice/Politics of trade: foreign merchants and the administration of justice from the records of Venice’s Giudici del Forestier’, (59 pp.) Mélanges de l’École française de Rome, MEFRIM, 126/1 (2014);

• ‘Cooperating mercantile networks in the Early Modern Mediterranean’, The Economic History Review, 65 (2012);

• ‘Maritime History as Global History? The methodological challenges and a future research agenda’, in Maritime History as Global History;

• ‘Representation in practice: the myth of Venice and the British Protectorate in the Ionian Islands (1801–1864)’, in F. de Vivo, M. Calaresu, J.-P. Rubies eds., Exploring Cultural History. Essays in Honour of Peter Burke (London, 2010);

• ‘After Braudel. A Reassessment of Mediterranean History between the Northern Invasion and the Caravane Maritime’, in Trade and Cultural Exchange in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Braudel's Maritime Legacy;

• ‘Mercanti stranieri nell’economia italiana’, in F. Franceschi, R. Goldthwaite, R. Mueller eds., Il Rinascimento Italiano e l’Europa, vol. 4, L’Italia e l'economia europea nel Rinascimento (Treviso, 2007);

• ‘Coping with transition: Greek merchants and shipowners between Venice and England in the late sixteenth century’, in G. Harlaftis, I. Baghdianz-McCabe, I. Pepelasis-Minoglou eds, Diaspora entrepreneurial networks: four centuries of History (London, 2005);

• ‘Les Anglais et les Grecs. Un réseau de coopération commerciale en Méditerranée vénitienne’, Annales Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 58 (2003).