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Venice, a maritime republic

A history of Venice from the earliest times - Crusades - Ships and navigation - Byzantine and Gothics - Humanism - Renaissance - Merchant shipping - Scuole
Print Book, English, [1973]
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, [1973]
History
xiii, 505 pages illustrations 27 cm
9780801814457, 9780801814600, 0801814456, 080181460X
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The beginning
The port-city and its population
The conquest of sea power
Police and piracy in the Adriatic
Victories beyond-the-sea and in Romania
The organization of sea power
Ships, crews, and the ship's company
The lordship of the gulf
The trade of the Levant
Aristocratic polity
From dukedom to commune
The growing structure of the commune
A reorganization of sea power
The response to the nautical revolution of the middle ages
The commercial revolution of the resident merchants
Craftsmen and seamen
Triumph by cohesion
Symptoms of disintegration
The climax of the struggle with Genoa
The turn westward
Arts, sciences, and literature
Contests for power: the fifteenth century
Contests for power: the sixteenth century
The corruption and perfection of the constitution
The oceanic challenge
Participants in oceanic discoveries
The spice trade
The shifts in other trades
The expansion of manufactures
Finance and income from power
Changing fleets and shipyards
The peak and passing of the merchant galleys
The war fleets
Argosies with portly sails
A tenacious defense
Of sovereignty and the constitution
In a new age of sea power
The death of the republic
The completion and preservation of the city
English
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