VENICE: A MARITIME REPUBLIC
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A history of Venice from the earliest times - Crusades - Ships and navigation - Byzantine and Gothics - Humanism - Renaissance - Merchant shipping - Scuole. Table of Contents Frontmatterpage N/A 1: The Beginningspage p.1 2: The Port-City and Its Populationspage p.10 3: Police and Piracy in the Adriaticpage 22 4: Victories Beyond-the-Sea and in Romaniapage p.30 5: Ships, Crews, and the Ship's Companypage p.44 6: The Lordship of the Gulfpage p.56 7: The Trade of the Levantpage p.66 8: From Dukedom to Communepage p.86 9: The Growing Structure of the Communepage p.102 10: The Response to the Nautical Revolution of the Middle Agespage p.118 11: The Commercial Revolution of the Resident Merchantspage p.136 12: Craftsmen and Seamenpage p.154 13: Symptoms of Disintegrationpage p.172 14: The Climax of the Struggle with Genoa p.188 15: Arts, Sciences, and Literaturepage p.202 16: Contests for Power: The Fifteenth Centurypage p.224 17: Contests for Power: The Sixteenth Centurypage p.240 18: The Corruption and Perfection of the Constitutionpage p.250 19: Participants in Oceanic Discoveriespage p.274 20: The Spice Tradepage p.284 21: The Shifts in Other Tradespage p.296 22: The Expansion of Manufacturespage p.308 23: Finance and Income from Powerpage p.322 24: The Peak and Passing of the Merchant Galleyspage p.336 25: The War Fleetspage p.354 26: Argosies with Portly Sailspage p.376 27: Of Sovereignty and the Constitutionpage p.390 28: In a New Age of Sea Powerpage p.406 29: The Death of the Republicpage p.422 30: The Completion and Preservation of the Citypage p.438 Bibliographical Notes p.459 Index p.485
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