Le trop et le trop peu : capitaux et rapports de pouvoir dans un village de l'Italie du Sud (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles)

Too Much and Too Little: Capital and Power Relations in Southern Italian Villag.(XVIIth-XVIIIth Centuries). By means of crosschecking financial data supplied by ordinary sources of documentation with data supplied by book concerning the genealogies of all of the families this article analyses the ensemble of relational mechanisms (family, marriage, political clientele, factional belonging... ) and power conflicts which underlie the loan transactions made in small southern Italian village between the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. The author shows the gradual transition (end XVIIth-XVIIIth century), after period of speculation and of financial and political upheaval end XVIIth beginning XVIIIth century) to closed system in which the different financial institutions provide their services to political clientele which is at once highly exclusive and isolated one from the other .Delille Gérard. Le trop et le trop peu : capitaux et rapports de pouvoir dans un village de l'Italie du Sud (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles). In: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 49ᵉ année, N. 6, 1994. pp. 1429-1442