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Release : 1971
Genre : Venice (Italy)
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Author : Monique O'Connell
Release : 2009-04-27
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Men of Empire by : Monique O'Connell
Download or read book Men of Empire written by Monique O'Connell. This book was released on 2009-04-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city-state of Venice, with a population of less than 100,000, dominated a fragmented and fragile empire at the boundary between East and West, between Latin Christian, Greek Orthodox, and Muslim worlds. In this institutional and administrative history, Monique O’Connell explains the structures, processes, practices, and laws by which Venice maintained its vast overseas holdings. The legal, linguistic, religious, and cultural diversity within Venice’s empire made it difficult to impose any centralization or unity among its disparate territories. O’Connell has mined the vast archival resources to explain how Venice’s central government was able to administer and govern its extensive empire. O’Connell finds that successful governance depended heavily on the experience of governors, an interlocking network of noble families, who were sent overseas to negotiate the often conflicting demands of Venice’s governing council and the local populations. In this nexus of state power and personal influence, these imperial administrators played a crucial role in representing the state as a hegemonic power; creating patronage and family connections between Venetian patricians and their subjects; and using the judicial system to negotiate a balance between local and imperial interests. In explaining the institutions and individuals that permitted this type of negotiation, O’Connell offers a historical example of an early modern empire at the height of imperial expansion.
Author : Marion Leathers Kuntz
Release : 2010-11-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Anointment of Dionisio by : Marion Leathers Kuntz
Download or read book Anointment of Dionisio written by Marion Leathers Kuntz. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. Hurlburt
Release : 2016-09-27
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Dogaressa of Venice, 1200-1500 by : H. Hurlburt
Download or read book The Dogaressa of Venice, 1200-1500 written by H. Hurlburt. This book was released on 2016-09-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the identity and public personae of the dogaressa, wives of the elected doges of medieval and early modern Venice. The study traces the evolution of the public functions of the group of quasi-royal wives, rare for their visibility, during Venice's development into a regional economic and political power.
Author : Ioanna Iordanou
Release : 2019-10-28
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Venice's Secret Service by : Ioanna Iordanou
Download or read book Venice's Secret Service written by Ioanna Iordanou. This book was released on 2019-10-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venice's Secret Service is the untold and arresting story of the world's earliest centrally-organised state intelligence service. Long before the inception of SIS and the CIA, in the period of the Renaissance, the Republic of Venice had masterminded a remarkable centrally-organised state intelligence organisation that played a pivotal role in the defence of the Venetian empire. Housed in the imposing Doge's Palace and under the direction of the Council of Ten, the notorious governmental committee that acted as Venice's spy chiefs, this 'proto-modern' organisation served prominent intelligence functions including operations (intelligence and covert action), analysis, cryptography and steganography, cryptanalysis, and even the development of lethal substances. Official informants and amateur spies were shipped across Europe, Anatolia, and Northern Africa, conducting Venice's stealthy intelligence operations. Revealing a plethora of secrets, their keepers, and their seekers, Venice's Secret Service explores the social and managerial processes that enabled their existence and that furnished the foundation for an extraordinary intelligence organisation created by one of the early modern world's most cosmopolitan states.
