Giorgio Riello

Professor of Early Modern Global History

"European Factories of the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800" examining the role of the European East India Company’s ports, trade and system of procurement in Asia.
“Cultures of Innovation: Silk in Pre-Modern Eurasia” (with Dagmar Schaefer, Max Planck Institute, Berlin) comparing innovation in the production and consumption of textiles in China and Western Europe, c. 1200-1800.
“Carletti's World: An Early Modern Global Voyage” considering the travels of the Florentine merchant Francesco Carletti in 1594-1602

Global History (with Prof. L. Riall) - First term 2020/2021
Global Commodities: Resources and Materialities (with Prof. A. Etkind) - First term 2020/2021

Back in Fashion: Western Fashion from the Middle Ages to the Present (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020), 289pp.
ed.with Ulinka Rublack, The Right to Dress: Sumptuary Laws in a Global Perspective, 1200-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 505pp.
ed. with Dagmar Schaefer and Luca Molà, Threads of Global Desire: Silk in the Pre-modern World (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2018), 412pp.
ed.with Tirthankar Roy, Global Economic History (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), 376pp.
with Peter McNeil, Luxury: A Rich History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), 351pp. Translated into Polish as Historia Luksusu (Bellona, 2017); into Chinese (Truth and Wisdom Press, forthcoming 2020).
Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 407pp. Translations into Chinese 棉的全球史乔吉奥列略历史书籍 (Beijing: Shanghai People Press and CUP, 2018); into Japanese (forthcoming 2021).

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Postal address:
Department of History and Civilization
Via Bolognese 156
50139 Florence - Italy

Office SAMN238 at Villa Salviati, Manica