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Crisis and Change in the Venetian Economy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Paperback)
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Crisis and Change in the Venetian Economy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Paperback)
Series: Economic History
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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 pleasure and landed wealth was, however, a complex
process. It resulted not so much from the Portuguese voyages of
discovery at the beginning of the sixteenth century as from
increasing Dutch adn English competition at its end, and from
industrial competition chiefly from beyond the Mediterranean.
Several of the Articles Dr Pullan has chosen to illustrate these
changes are made available in English for the first time, and two
have been revised for this book. Four deal with the fortunes of
entrepot trade and shipbuilding, which had furnished the basis of
Venetian wealth adn influence in the Middle Ages; four others
expamine the new fields of enterprise which Venice explored in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and which helped to compensate
for the decline in traditional activities. This classic book was
first published in 1968.
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