Silk Industry in Early Modern Piedmont

Chapter 1: The Ecosystem of Innovation: an Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Italian Silk Road and Piedmontese Backwardness.- Chapter 3: The Piedmontese Avant-garde: Innovations in Techniques and Technologies.- Chapter 4: Beyond Technology. Law, Institutions, and the Challenge of Innovation.- Chapter 5: Innovation and Entrepreneurship: The Rise of Industrial Capitalism in Piedmont's Silk Economy.- Chapter 6: Silk Work, Silk Workers: Crafting Expertise through Migration, Training, and Gender.- Chapter 7: The Baroque Industrial District: Silk and the Urban Transformation of Turin.- Chapter 8: External Pressures: Fashion, Cotton, and the Decline of Piedmont's Silk Industry.- Chapter 9: Broken Threads: Silk, Power, and the Collapse of the Ancien Regime in Piedmont.- Chapter 10: Epilogue. The Crystallization of the Glass Bead Paradox.

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