Venice and History The Collected Papers of Frederic C. Lane / the collected papers of Frederic C. Lane, edited by a committee of colleagues and former students. Foreword by Fernand Braudel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lane, Frederic Chapin, 1900-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Venice (Italy)--Commerce--History.

Venice (Italy).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 560 p.) port.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johns Hopkins University Press 1966

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press [1966]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published in 1966. This book collects papers and essays written by historian Frederic C. Lane, who specialized in medieval Venetian history.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Foreword by Fernand Braudel

Biographical Note

Part One: Venice

Venice in the Routes of World Trade

1. Venetian Shipping during the Commercial Revolution

2. The Mediterranean Spice Trade: Its Revival in the Sixteenth Century

Business and Finance

3. Family Partnerships and Joint Ventures

4. Investment and Usury

5. Venetian Bankers, 1496-1533

6. The Funded Debt of the Venetian Republic, 1262-1482

7. Venture Accounting in Medieval Business Management

8. Rhythm and Rapidity of Turnover in Venetian Trade of the Fifteenth Century

9. Fleets and Fairs

Ships and Shipping

10. The Merchant Marine of the Venetian Republic

11. Naval Architecture, about 1550

12. From Biremes to Triremes

13. Merchant Galleys, 1300-34: Private and Communal Operation

14. Maritime Law and Administration, 1250-1350

15. Cotton Cargoes and Regulations against Overloading

16. Diet and Wages of Seamen in the Early Fourteenth Century

Industry and Government

17. The Rope Factory and Hemp Trade in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

18. Medieval Political Ideas and the Venetian Constitution

Part Two: European Commerce

19. Colbert and the Commerce of Bordeaux

20. The Economic Meaning of the Invention of the Compass

21. Tonnages, Medieval and Modern

Part Three: The Cost of Protection

22. National Wealth and Protection Costs

23. The Economic Meaning of War and Protection

24. Force and Enterprise in the Creation of Oceanic Commerce

25. Economic Consequences of Organized Violence

Part Four: History

26. Why Begin at the Beginning?

27. The Social Sciences and the Humanities

28. Theoretical and Historical Interests

29. Some Heirs of Gustav von Schmoller

30. Units of Economic Growth Historically Considered

31. Human History and Natural History.

32. At the Roots of Republicanism

Postscript

Bibliography of Frederic C. Lane, 1924-66

Index.

Notes:

"Bibliography of Frederic C. Lane, 1924-66": p. 543-549.

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ISBN:

0-8018-0359-4

OCLC:

1128825579