Book
Venice : a new history
Publication Information
New York : Viking, 2012.
Physical Description
xi, 446 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 24 cm.
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.