Venice A New History

Name: Venice A New History
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ISBN: 9780670025428

ISBN-10: 0670025429

ISBN-13: 9780670025428

Edition: 2012

Authors: Thomas F. Madden

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An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeurThomas Madden’s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years. Using long-buried archival material and a wealth of newly translated documents, Madden has weaves a spellbinding story of a place and its people, tracing an arc from the city’s humble origins as a lagoon refuge to its apex as a vast maritime empire and Renaissance epicenter to its rebirth as a modern tourist hub.Madden explores all aspects of Venice’s breathtaking achievements: the construction of its unparalleled navy, its role as an economic powerhouse and birthplace of capitalism, its…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/25/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



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



Marks, 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


Further Reading


Index