Explorations: Ships of Fortune: Venice - lack of mineral resources
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Background to Channel 4 'The Day the World Took Off', shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.
Within the ancient 'ghetto' or iron-working area of Venice, Alan Macfarlane explains some of the reasons why, in the absence of iron ore and coal, the Venetians would have found it impossible to have an industrial revolution of the kind that developed in England. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-08 17:53 |
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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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