Venice
Subtitle: islands of honor and profit : a new history
By: Thomas F. Madden
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780670025428
Subjects: History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Refugees on the Lagoon : The Origins of Venice; title: St. Mark's Rest : The Birth of the City of Venice, 697-836; title: Coming of Age : Independence, Expansion, and Power, 836-1094; title: A Merchant Republic in a Feudal Age : Ecclesiastical and Political Reform, 1095-1172; title: Between Empires : The Peace of Venice, 1172-1200; title: Birth of a Maritime Empire : Venice and the Fourth Crusade; title: Marco Polo's Venice : Prosperity, Power, and Piety in the Thirteenth Century; title: The Discovery of the West : War, Wealth, and Reform in the Early Fourteenth Century; title: Plague and Treason in the Fourteenth Century; title: From Victory to Victory : The War of Chioggia and the Birth of the Mainland Empire; title: Sowing and Reaping : Medieval Venice and the Birth of Modern Finance; title: Death of a Parent : The Fall of Constantinople and the Rise of the Ottoman Turks; title: The Perils of Success : The Apogee of the Venetian Empire; title: Most Splendid and Serene : Venice and the Renaissance; title: For God and St. Mark : The Wars against the Turks; title: Masks, Opera, and Love : Venice the Tourist Destination; title: A Medieval Republic in the Modern World : The United States, France, and the Fall of the Republic; title: A Crisis of Identity : Venice in the Nineteenth Century; title: War, Water, and Tourists : Venice in the Twentieth Century and Beyond.