Venice : a new history, Thomas F. Madden

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Venice : a new history, Thomas F. Madden

Title remainder

a new history

Statement of responsibility

Thomas F. Madden

Instantiates

• trueVenice : a new history

Publication

• New York, Viking, 2012

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Refugees on the Lagoon : The Origins of Venice -- St. Mark's Rest : The Birth of the City of Venice, 697-836 -- Coming of Age : Independence, Expansion, and Power, 836-1094 -- A Merchant Republic in a Feudal Age : Ecclesiastical and Political Reform, 1095-1172 -- Between Empires : The Peace of Venice, 1172-1200 -- Birth of a Maritime Empire : Venice and the Fourth Crusade -- Marco Polo's Venice : Prosperity, Power, and Piety in the Thirteenth Century -- The Discovery of the West : War, Wealth, and Reform in the Early Fourteenth Century -- Plague and Treason in the Fourteenth Century -- From Victory to Victory : The War of Chioggia and the Birth of the Mainland Empire -- Death of a Parent : The Fall of Constantinople and the Rise of the Ottoman Turks -- Sowing and Reaping : Medieval Venice and the Birth of Modern Finance -- The Perils of Success : The Apogee of the Venetian Empire -- Most Splendid and Serene : Venice and the Renaissance -- For God and St. Mark : The Wars against the Turks -- Masks, Opera, and Love : Venice the Tourist Destination -- A Medieval Republic in the Modern World : The United States, France, and the Fall of Venice -- A Crisis of Identity : Venice in the Nineteenth Century -- War, Water, and Tourists : Venice in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

Control code

000050122485

Dimensions

24 cm.

Extent

xi, 446 p., [8] p. of plates

Isbn

9780670025428

Isbn Type

(alk. paper)

Other physical details

ill. (chiefly col.), maps

Record ID

u133244