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Peasants and Soldiers - The Management of the Venetian Military Structure in the Mainland Dominion Between the 16th and 17th Centuries (Paperback)
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Peasants and Soldiers - The Management of the Venetian Military Structure in the Mainland Dominion Between the 16th and 17th Centuries (Paperback)
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Early-modern Venice is predominantly remembered as a maritime
power, yet historians have become increasingly interested in its
political and military aspirations within the Italian mainland.
Adding to the growing literature on this subject, Giulio Ongaro's
book addresses the practical management of the Venetian military
apparatus in this period. Focusing on two provinces - Vicenza and
Brescia - he interrogates a broad spectrum of primary source
documents produced by these rural communities that illuminate
Venetian military activities between the mid-sixteenth century and
the end of the War of Candia in 1670. From the production of the
saltpeter, the construction of the fortresses, the supplying and
the training of the rural militia and the quartering of troops,
this book shows how essential military activities were managed and
overseen at the local level. In so doing, it demonstrates how local
autonomy over the management of Venetian military apparatus -
particularly from an economic point of view - did not necessarily
conflict with wider, ongoing processes of state building or moves
towards the centralization of particular public functions. Indeed
the state appeared to encourage local elites (initially urban, then
rural) to take a leading role in overseeing the localised
management of military tasks. The result was a system that both
supported the resilience of the local economy (both public and
private), and which strengthened and improved the Republic's
military assets, allowing it to remain the only Italian state free
from the domination of European monarchies.
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