In this magisterial history, National Book Award winner William H. McNeill chronicles the interactions and disputes between Latin Christians and the Orthodox communities of eastern Europe during the period 1081-1797. Concentrating on Venice as the hinge of European history in the late medieval and early modern period, McNeill explores the technological, economic, and political bases of Venetian power and wealth, and the city's unique status at the frontier between the papal and Orthodox Christian worlds. He pays particular ...
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In this magisterial history, National Book Award winner William H. McNeill chronicles the interactions and disputes between Latin Christians and the Orthodox communities of eastern Europe during the period 1081-1797. Concentrating on Venice as the hinge of European history in the late medieval and early modern period, McNeill explores the technological, economic, and political bases of Venetian power and wealth, and the city's unique status at the frontier between the papal and Orthodox Christian worlds. He pays particular attention to Venetian influence upon southeastern Europe, and from such an angle of vision, the familiar pattern of European history changes shape. "No other historian would have been capable of writing a book as direct, as well-informed and as little weighed down by purple prose as this one. Or as impartial. McNeill has succeeded admirably."-Fernand Braudel, Times Literary Supplement "The book is serious, interesting, occasionally compelling, and always suggestive."-Stanley Chojnacki, American Historical Review
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Seller's Description:
Very good in very good jacket. Red cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, sparsely illustrated with b&w maps. Book has a couple small spots of soil to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked, with faint mustiness and foxing to top edge of block. DJ gently toned and rubbed, mild shelfwear that includes small tears, faint sun to spine.
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Very Good. Size: 5x1x8; Hardcover and dust jacket. Jacket clipped. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. A couple markings on front end pages, else unmarked. xvii, 334 pages: illustrations; 23 cm. Related ephemera included: photographs of Venice. Concentrating on Venice as the hinge of European history in the late medieval and early modern period, McNeill explores the technological, economic, and political bases of Venetian power and wealth, and the cities unique status at the frontier between the papal and Orthodox Christian worlds. He pays particular attention to Venetian influence upon southeastern Europe, and from such an angle of vision, the familiar pattern of European history changes shape.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 352 p. Audience: General/trade. 1974 edition with DJ. Binding strong, pages tight. Bookstore price inside front cover. DJ shows light wear for age
