City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas by Roger Crowley
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Overview: Crowley is entranced by Venice. It has two great lures: the sea, and its status as a very modern state in medieval times. The two led it to become Europe’s first economic superpower. Venice was ideally located to provide the sea link between the great Middle East overland spice routes and continental Europe. In the time of feudalism and a landed aristocracy, Venice was a republic “run by and for entrepreneurs,” replacing “the chivalrous medieval knight with a new type of hero: the man of business.” The city of merchant-princes understood the value of a rational and stable legal system. The two made the Venetian ducat the dollar of its day and provided a model for later naval empires like the British Empire.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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