Books by Dennis Romano
Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
by Dennis Romano
Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City is a new history of Venice by Dennis Romano, a historian at Syracuse University who has authored a number of books on the city. It's a long book (just over 600 pages) but covers the entire history of the city, from its mythic beginnings, through to the present with sections on medieval times, the Renaissance, 'old regime' Venicee as well as modern and contemporary Venice.
Interviews where books by Dennis Romano were recommended
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A Cool Head in Hell: The Wartime Diaries of a British Doctor from Dunkirk to the Burma Railway
by Harry Silman & Jacqueline Passman (editor) -
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King of Kings: The Fall of the Shah, the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Unmaking of the Modern Middle East
by Scott Anderson -
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The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom
by David Woodman -
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The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century
by Tim Weiner -
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The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World
by Selena Wisnom -
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The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
by Garrett Graff
New History Books
New History Books
It’s a golden age for historical writing, as well-researched and sometimes quite specialist books by historians are written in an engaging style for a broad audience. History books out in recent months range from ancient Assyria to the CIA in the 21st century.
