E-Book, Englisch, Band 127, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Power and Negotiation in Venice's Maritime State
E-Book, Englisch, Band 127, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
ISBN: 978-0-8018-9637-8
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
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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.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgments
Note on Proper Names and Dates
Introduction
1. The Shape of Empire
2. Administrators of Empire
3. Public Office and Patrician Family Strategies
4. Imperial Justice
5. Negotiating Empire
6. Syndics, Prosecutions, and Scandal
7. Fault Lines of Empire
Appendix A: Offices in the Venetian Maritime State
Appendix B: Genealogical Charts
Notes
Works Cited
Index
