SC - Venetian Supremacy

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/17/99 11:40:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
rkappler at home.com writes:

<< My general reaction to the initial sweeping
 statement, however, still stands, albeit my refutation was a little more
 focused in one area than it should have been, which shows me I need to
 expand my research and point of view as well.  >>

To help you expand your research, I offer the following resources, kindly 
forwarded to me from Dr Buell. Enjoy.

On silk, since the books include much on trade routes, see Hans Wilhelm
Haussig, die Geschichte Zentralasiens und der Seidenstrasse in
vorislamischer Zeit, Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft,
1983; and the same authors die Geschichte Zentralasians und der
Seidenstrasse in islamischer Zeit, same publisher, 1988. Slightly past
your period, but containing much useful earlier information, is Louis
Dermigny, La Chine et L'Occident, Le Commerce a Canton au XVIIIe Siecle,
1719-1833, 4 vols. Editions Jean Touzot, Paris, 1964. Nothing on
Germany, since it wasn't Roman, but see also J. Innes Miller, the Spice
Trade of the Roman Empire, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1969. I
could go on and on, there is so much. By all means look at Braudel's
various appropriate works too, for the later period, and J. Israel on
Holland, again on a later period, but with much earlier information. No
small topic yours. Paul D. Buell

Another source you might try is Janet Abu-Lughod's "Before European Hegemony" 
(Oxford UP, 1988?) "as it offers a very good global analysis of trade at that 
point."

Ras 
(with many thanks to the scholars from around the world who are involved in 
the study of medieval Middle Eastern and European history and who have 
forwarded me reference materials that would normally take YEARS to find and 
research again.)
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