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Venice in an Age of Global Trade

General Reading

Contadini, Anna, and Claire Norton (eds), The Renaissance and the Ottoman World (Farnham, 2013)

Dini, Bruno, Saggi su una economia-mondo: Firenze e l'Italia fra Mediterraneo ed Europa secc. XIII-XVI (Pisa, 1995)

Molà, Luca, Reinhold C. Mueller, and Claudio Zanier (eds), La seta in Italia dal Medioevo al Seicento: Dal baco al drappo (Venice, 2000)

Wansbrough, John, 'Venice and Florence in the Mamluk Commercial Privileges', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 28/3 (1965), 483-52. JSTOR

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Apellániz, Francisco, 'Venetian Trading Networks in the Medieval Mediterranean', Journal of Interdisciplinary History 44 (2013), 157-79

Arbel,Benjamin, 'Venice's Maritime Empire in the Early Modern Period', in Eric R. Dursteler (ed.), A Companion to Venetian History 1400-1797 (Leiden, 2013), pp. 125-253. Brill e-book

Ashtor, E., 'Profits from Trade with the Levant in the Fifteenth Century', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 38/2 (1975), 250-75. JSTOR

Beck, H.-G, et al. (eds), Venezia. Centro di Mediazione tra Oriente e Occidente (secoli XV- XVI). Aspetti e Problemi (Florence, 1977)

Borelli, G. (ed.), Mercanti e vita economica nella Repubblica veneta (secoli XIII-XVIII) (Verona, 1985)

Calabi, Donatella, ‘Gli stranieri e la città’, in Storia di Venezia, vol. 5, Il Rinascimento. Società ed economia, ed. Alberto Tenenti and Ugo Tucci (Rome, 1996)

Carboni, Stefano (ed.), Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797 (New Haven, 2007)

Christ, Georg, 'Masked Cooperation with the Infidel? The Venetian Commercial Privileges, Political Power, and Legal Culture in Mamlûk Egypt', in Ausma Cimdina and Jonathan Osmond (eds), Power and Culture. Hegemony, Interaction and Dissent (Pisa, 2006)

Cowan, Alexander, 'Foreigners and the City: The Case of the Immigrant Merchant,' in Mediterranean Urban Culture, ed. A. Cowan (Exeter, 2000), 45-55.

Cozzi, G., (ed.), Gli ebrei e Venezia secoli XIV-XVIII (Milan, 1987)

Davis, Robert C., and Benjamin Ravid, (eds), The Jews of Early Modern Venice (Baltimore, 2001)

Dursteler, Eric R., 'The Bailo in Constantinople: Crisis and Career in Venice's Early Modern Diplomatic Corps', Mediterranean Historical Review 16/2 (2001), 1-30.

Dursteler, Eric R., Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Baltimore, 2006)

Fusaro, Maria, Political Economies of Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean: The Decline of Venice and the Rise of England 1450–1700 (Cambridge, 2015)

Jacoby, David, 'Silk Economics and Cross-Cultural Artistic Interaction: Byzantium, the Muslim World, and the Christian West', Dumbarton Oaks Papers 58 (2004), 197-240. JSTOR

Judde de Lariviere, Claire, 'The "Public" and the "Private" in Sixteenth-century Venice: From Medieval Economy to Early Modern State', Historical Social Research 37/4 (2012), 76-94.

Lanaro, Paola, (ed.), At the centre of the old world: trade and manufacturing in Venice and on the Venetian mainland (1400-1800) (Toronto, 2006)

Lane, F.C., Venice and History (Baltimore, 1966)

Lane, F.C., Venice: A Maritime Republic (Baltimore, 1973)

Lowry, M.J.C., Power, Print and Profit: Nicholas Jenson and the Rise of Venetian Publishing in Renaissance Europe (Oxford, 1990)

Lowry, M.J.C., Venetian Capital, German Technology and Renaissance Culture in the Later Fifteenth Century, Renaissance Studies 2.1 (1988), 1–13.

Lupprian, Karl-Ernst, Il Fondaco dei tedeschi e la sua funzione di controllo del commercio tedesco a Venezia (Venice, 1978)

Molà, Luca, La communità dei Lucchesi a Venezia (Venice, 1994)

Molà, Luca, The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice (Baltimore, 2000) NetLibrary

Munro, John, 'South German Silver, European Textiles, and Venetian Trade with the Levant and Ottoman Empire, c. 1370 to c. 1720: A Non-mercantilist Approach to the Balance of Payments Problem', working paper (University of Toronto, 2006), 1-63.

Mueller, R., ‘Mercanti e imprenditori fiorentini a Venezia nel tardo medioevo’, Società e Storia 54 (1992), 29-60.

Pezzolo, Luciano, The rise and decline of a great power: Venice 1250-1650 (Department of Economics, University of Venice "Ca' Foscari" in its series Working Papers 2006_27)

Preto, P., Venezia e i Turchi (Florence, 1975)

Pullan, Brian S., (ed.), Crisis and change in the Venetian economy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (London, 1968)

Ravid, Benjamin, Studies on the Jews of Venice, 1382-1797 (Aldershot, 2003)

Theunissen, Hans, 'Ottoman-Venetian Diplomatics: the Ahd-names. The Historical Background and the Development of a Category of Political-Commercial Instruments together with an Annotated Edition of a Corpus of Relevant Documents', Electronic Journal of Oriental Studies 1 (1998), no. 2, 1-698.

Van Gelder, Maartje, Trading Places: The Netherlandish Merchants in Early Modern Venice (Leiden, 2009)

Varanini, Gian Maria. and Reinhold C. Mueller (eds), Ebrei nella Terraferma veneta del Quattrocento (Florence, 2005)

Venezia e i Turchi. Scontri e confronti di due civiltà (Milan, 1985)

Venezia e la Germania: Arte, politica, commercio, due civiltà a confronto (Milan, 1987)

Wansbrough, John, 'A Mamluk Ambassador to Venice in 913/1507', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 26/3 (1963), 503-30. JSTOR

Wansbrough, John, 'A Moroccan amir's Commercial Treaty with Venice of the Year 913/1508', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 25/3 (1962), 449-71. JSTOR