Migrazioni e colonizzazione interna nel Mediterraneo d’età moderna, un progetto di umanistica digitale

Salice, Giampaolo

2017-01-01

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Abstract

In the early modern times, European States planned and put in place internal colonization policies as to promote the demographic, agricultural and commercial growth of their territories. Between the Sixteenth and the Eighteenth Century, foreign colonists are the most favourite settlers involved in such policies. Today, we have many studies on single episodes of territorial reorganization and internal colonization. However we lack an overall synthesis of such phenomena, which analyses any single episode in a global and comparative framework. ‘Migration and internal colonization in the Early Modern Mediterranean’ is a research project that attempts to fill this historiographical gap. Through the tools of the Digital Humanities, the project aims at setting up a digital platform for reordering, studying and disseminating all the heterogeneous material related to the involvement of foreigners in the State policies of internal colonisation of Europe.