War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvAnastasia Stouraiti,University of London) Stouraiti, Anastasia (Goldsmiths

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Weaving together cultural history and critical imperial studies, this book shows how war and colonial expansion shaped seventeenth-century Venetian culture and society. Anastasia Stouraiti tests conventional assumptions about republicanism, commercial peace and cross-cultural exchange and offers a novel approach to the study of the Republic of Venice. Her extensive research brings the history of communication in dialogue with conquest and empire-building in the Mediterranean to provide an original interpretation of the politics of knowledge in wartime Venice. The book argues that the Venetian-Ottoman War of the Morea (1684-1699) was mediated through a diverse range of cultural mechanisms of patrician elite domination that orchestrated the production of popular consent. It sheds new light on the militarisation of the Venetian public sphere and exposes the connections between bellicose foreign policies and domestic power politics in a state celebrated as the most serene republic of merchants.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-02-13
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt448 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor307
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108971355

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Anastasia Stouraiti is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she specialises in the history of the Republic of Venice and its empire. She has received several prestigious grants and awards, including fellowships at Princeton and the European University Institute, a British Academy Small Research Grant, and a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship. She currently holds a British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Fellowship for her project 'Venice: A New Imperial History'.

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Chronology; Introduction; 1. War, Information, and Popular Consent in Seventeenth-Century Venice; 2. Making History: Official and Popular War Historiographies; 3. Printed Images and the Visual Culture of the News; 4. Documentary Poetics and the Literary Public Sphere; 5. Reclaiming Ancient Greece: Plunder and the Imperial Regime of Antiquities; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.