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

Informationen zum 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. Klappentext 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 industrial community, and shows how the Venetian government formed its shipbuilders into a militia to maintain public order.

Product details

• Authors: Robert C. Davis, Robert C. (Ohio State University) Davis, Davis Robert C.
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.05.2007
• EAN: 9780801886256
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8625-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Johns Hopkins University Studi; The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science; Johns Hopkins University Studi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, Italy, maritime history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Manufacturing industries, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, C 1600 To C 1700, Shipbuilding industry