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Crisis and Change in the Venetian Economy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

232 Pages

by Routledge

232 Pages

by Routledge

232 Pages

by Routledge

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The decline of Venice remains one of the classic episodes in the economic development of modern Europe. Its contrasts are familiar enough: the wealthiest commercial power in fifteenth-century Europe, the strongest western colonial power in the eastern Mediterranean, found its principal fame three centuries later in carnival and the arts. This metamorphosis from commercial hegemony to fashionable... Read more

Editor's Introduction

1. Venetian shipping during the Commercial Revolution, Frederic C. Lane

2. The Mediterranean spice trade: Further evidence of its revival in the sixteenth century, Frederic. C. Lane

3. Economic aspects of the construction of warships in Venice in the sixteenth century, Ruggiero Romano

4. Crisis and Transformation in Venetian trade, Domenicao Sella

5. The rise and fall of the Venetian woollen industry, Domenico Sella

6. The Economic decline of Italy, Carlo M. Cipolla

7. Wage earners and the Venetian economy, 1550-1630, Brian Pullan

8. Venice and the terraferma: Problems of the change from commercial to landed activities, S.J. Woolf