Winner of the American Catholic Historical Association's Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History The master ship builders of seventeenth-century Venice forme

ORIGINALLY published in 1934, this major study by Frederic Lane tracks the rise and decline of the great shipbuilding industry of Renaissance Venice. Drawing on

“The rise and fall of Venice’s empire is an irresistible story and [Roger] Crowley, with his rousing descriptive gifts and scholarly attention to detail, is

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the Venetian Arsenal *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "As in the Arsenal

Over the last 2,000 years, critical innovations have transformed small regions into global powers. But these powers have faded when they did not embrace the nex