History of Venice: syllabus
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Luca Pes, Venice International University
Week 1 Narratives of the OriginsPatricia Fortini Brown, Implied Origins, in Venice and Antiquity. The Venetian Sense of the Past, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 1997, pp.11-29
Week 2: Invention of the LagoonElisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, A City Born in the Water, in Venice Triumphant. The Horizons of a Myth, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London 2002, pp.1-45
Week 3: Construction of the CityElisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Scenes of Daily Life, in Venice Triumphant. The Horizons of a Myth, pp.138-182
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Week 4: Construction of the CityLewis Mumford, Venice versus Utopia, in The City in History, Harcourt and Brace, New York 1961 pp. 321-329
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Week 5: Rise and FortuneFrederic Lane, The Conquest of Sea Power I and II, in Venice. A Maritime Republic, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London 1973
Week 6: The Venetian ExperiencePeter Burke, Early Modern Venice as a Center of Information and Communication in J.Martin and D. Romano (ed.), Venice Reconsidered. The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State 1297-1797, Johns Hopkins University Press pp.387-419
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Week 7: The Venetian ExperienceRichard Sennet, Fear of Touching. The Jewish Ghetto in Renaissance Venice in Flesh and Stone. The Body and the City in Western Civilization, Norton and Company, New York and London 1994 pp.211-251
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Week 8: FallFernand Braudel, The City Centered Economies of the European Past: Before and After Venice, in Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century. The Perspectives of the World, University of California Press, Berkeley-Los Angeles 1992 pp 89-174
Week 9: Death and RisorgimentoMargaret Plant, “Venice Will resist the Austrians at any cost”. Modernisation, Revolution, Resistance, in Venice. Fragile City 1797-1997, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2002 pp.121-158
Week 10: New Urban OrderMargaret Plant, The Year of the Winged Lion: 1914-1940, in Venice. Fragile City 1797-1997, pp.271-310
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Week 11: Divided City and PerspectivesMargaret Plant, The double Millennium: the end of the Century, the end of Venice, in Venice. Fragile City 1797-1997, pp.423-456
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Week 12: Divided City and PerspectivesMargaret Plant, The double Millennium: the end of the Century, the end of Venice, in Venice. Fragile City 1797-1997, pp.423-456
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