Italian colonial systems in the Mediterranean foreshadowed Iberian and Dutch empires

Evidence

Jacob Streider concluded: “The Italian city states developed a colonial system in the Mediterranean, a system which was a precursor and a prototype for Spain and Portugal in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and even for Holland in the seventeenth.” (Cited by Oliver C. Cox, The Foundations of Capitalism, Philosophical Library, New York, 1959, p. 85 n. 36.) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1841

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Directly supports the book’s thesis that capitalism’s colonial form originated in Italy, not later Atlantic powers.

Related

• Italian city states pioneered the colonial model later adopted by Spain, Portugal, and Holland (similarity 0.91)
• Italian city-states pioneered colonial methods later copied by Iberian and Dutch empires (similarity 0.91)
• A non-European empire also engaged in colonial cartography (similarity 0.89)
• Medieval Mediterranean slavery foreshadowed Atlantic colonial slavery (similarity 0.84)
• Medieval Mediterranean slavery provided the full model for Atlantic slavery (similarity 0.83)
• Italian capitalist networks enabled the Portuguese Empire and its slave trade (similarity 0.83)
• Italian merchant capitalism preceded and colonized the Iberian economies (similarity 0.82)
• Medieval Mediterranean slavery directly prefigured Atlantic colonial slavery. (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval Mediterranean slavery was the template for Atlantic colonial slavery. (similarity 0.80)
• Italian merchant city-states emerged from crusade logistics into commercial trade (similarity 0.80)
• European colonialism freed capital accumulation from Europe’s material limits (similarity 0.80)
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. (similarity 0.79)
• Europe’s expulsion of Jewish and Italian capitalists shifted the capital driving world system domination (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Medieval Mediterranean slavery foreshadowed Atlantic colonial slavery #expands (0.70)
• The SYL nationalized politics by reversing Italian colonial clan-based social engineering #corroborates (0.60)
• Cannibal fiction legitimized European colonial territorial conquest #expands (0.55) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 174