Explorations: Ships of Fortune: Why the Venetians did not have an 'Industrial Revolution'
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Background to Channel 4 'The Day the World Took Off', shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.
Despite their early industrial ability, the Venetians did not move on to a classical industrial revolution or become a great world Empire. Alan Macfarlane explains some of the reasons for the high level equilibrium reached in Venice. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-08 17:45 |
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| Collection: | A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off) |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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