Research Catalog
Venice : a new history
- Title
- Venice : a new history / Thomas F. Madden.
- Author
- Madden, Thomas F.
- Publication
- New York : Viking, 2012.
Details
- Description
- xi, 446 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps; 24 cm.
- Subject
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-8522
- ISBN
- 9780670025428 (alk. paper)
- 0670025429 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012005304
- OCLC
- 778827624
- Author
- Madden, Thomas F.
- Title
- Venice : a new history / Thomas F. Madden.
- Imprint
- New York : Viking, 2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-8522