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At the Centre of the Old World: Trade anal Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800.(Book review)
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Canadian Journal of History
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December 22, 2007
- Author:
- Brunelle, Gayle K.
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At the Centre of the Old World: Trade anal Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800, edited by Paola Lanaro. Toronto, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2003. vii, 412 pp. $32.00 Cdn (paper).
Despite this collection's title, the essays in At the Centre of the Old World focus almost entirely on manufacturing and mostly on the period 1e00 to 1800. They are about evenly distributed between those on Venice and those on the Venetian mainland, although the close relations that tied the economies of the two parts of Venetian territory to each other means that each figures in essays focused primarily on the other. Venetian economic policies and ...