Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization by Meredith Small

Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization

Meredith Small

336 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced

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An epic cultural journey that reveals how Venetian ingenuity and inventions—from sunglasses and forks to bonds and currency—shaped modernity.How did a small, isolated city—with a population that never exceeded 100,000, even in its heyday—come to t...

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