Robert C. Davis

Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal: Workers and Workplace in the Preindustrial City

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The master shipbuilders of seventeenth-century Venice formed part of what was arguably the greatest manufacturing complex in early modern Europe. As many as three thousand masters, apprentices, and laborers regularly worked in the city's enormous shipyards. Drawing on a variety of documents -- nearly a thousand petitions from the shipbuilders to the Venetian governments, parish records, inventories, and wills -- Robert C. Davis offers a vivid and compelling account of these early modern workers. This social history explores the workers' private and public worlds, uncovers the far-reaching social and cultural role played by women in this indus… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8018-8625-6
EAN: 9780801886256
Produktnummer: 2746054
Verlag: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 280 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.7 cm 426 g
Auflage: Revised
Reihenbandnummer: 109
Gewicht: 426
Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.

Über den Autor

Robert C. Davis is a professor of Italian Renaissance and early modern Mediterranean history at the Ohio State University. His publications include The Jews of Early Modern Venice, The War of the Fists, and (coedited with Judith Brown) Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy.