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War, communication, and the politics of culture in early modern Venice / Anastasia Stouraiti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stouraiti, Anastasia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Morean War, 1684-1699--Art and the war.
- Morean War, 1684-1699.
- Morean War, 1684-1699--Communications.
- War and civilization--Italy--Venice--History--17th century.
- War and civilization.
- Venice (Italy)--Civilization--17th century.
- Venice (Italy).
- Venice (Italy)--Civilization--Political aspects.
- Venice (Italy)--History--17th century.
- Venice (Italy)--Boundaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 291 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- Weaving together cultural history and critical imperial studies, this book shows how war and colonial expansion shaped seventeenth-century Venetian culture and society. Anastasia Stouraiti tests conventional assumptions about republicanism, commercial peace and cross-cultural exchange and offers a novel approach to the study of the Republic of Venice. Her extensive research brings the history of communication in dialogue with conquest and empire-building in the Mediterranean to provide an original interpretation of the politics of knowledge in wartime Venice. The book argues that the Venetian-Ottoman War of the Morea (1684-1699) was mediated through a diverse range of cultural mechanisms of patrician elite domination that orchestrated the production of popular consent. It sheds new light on the militarisation of the Venetian public sphere and exposes the connections between bellicose foreign policies and domestic power politics in a state celebrated as the most serene republic of merchants.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 31, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9781108974790
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1017/9781108974790 doi : No price
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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