City of Fortune How Venice Ruled the Seas

Name: City of Fortune How Venice Ruled the Seas
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ISBN: 9780812980226

ISBN-10: 0812980220

ISBN-13: 9780812980226

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Authors: Roger Crowley

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“The rise and fall of Venice’s empire is an irresistible story and [Roger] Crowley, with his rousing descriptive gifts and scholarly attention to detail, is its perfect chronicler.”—The Financial Times TheNew York Timesbestselling author ofEmpires of the Seacharts Venice’s astounding five-hundred-year voyage to the pinnacle of power in an epic story that stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty.City of Fortunetraces the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga, from the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, which culminates in the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, to the Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499–1503, which sees the Ottoman Turks supplant the Venetians as the preeminent naval…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/21/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Roger Crowley read English at Cambridge. He has had a varied career as a teacher and publisher and is the author of three books on the history of the Mediterranean. He lives in Gloucestershire and now writes full time. His website address is www.rogercrowley.co.uk



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Place Names in This Book


Prologue: Departure



Opportunity: Merchant Crusaders, 1000-1204



Lords of Dalmatia



The Blind Doge



Thirty-four Thousand Marks



"A Dog Retailing to Its Vomit"



At the Walls



Four Emperors



"The Works of Hell"



Ascent: Princes of the Sea, 1204-1500



A Quarter and Half a Quarter



Demand and Supply



"In the Jaws of Our Enemies"



The Flag of Saint Titus



Bridling Saint Mark



Fight to the Finish



Stato da Mar



"Like Water in a Fountain"



City of Neptune: The View from 1500



Eclipse: The Rising Moon, 1400-1503



The Glass Ball



The Shield of Christendom



"If Negroponte Is Lost"



Pyramid of Fire



Hands on the Throat of Venice


Epilogue: Return


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index