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Venice
An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur Thomas 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 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 populariz...
Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice
Winner of the 2005 Otto Grundler Award, the International Congress on Medieval Studies Between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, Venice transformed itself from a struggling merchant commune to a powerful maritime empire that would shape events in the Mediterranean for the next four hundred years. In this magisterial new book on medieval Venice, Thomas F. Madden traces the city-state's extraordinary rise through the life of Enrico Dandolo (c. 1107–1205), who ruled Venice as doge from 1192 until his death. The scion of a prosperous merchant family deeply involved in politics, religion, and diplomacy, Dandolo led Venice's forces during the disastrous Fourth Crusade (1201–1204), which s...
The Making of an Artist
A fascinating portrayal of the Irish actor, playwright, artist, linguist, and founder of the Gate Theatre, using hundreds of previously unseen letters and diary entries. Illustrated with personal photographs and artwork by MacLiammoir himself.
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390th Bomb Group
The 390th Bombardment Group (H) contained the 568th, 570th, and 571st squadrons.
Hearings
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Federal Probation
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A.M. Madden
Papers of Mrs A.M. Madden comprising legal memoranda, commissions and illuminated address of Thomas English, Scammell family autograph book, transcript of diary of Luther Scammell and diary of Ann Taunton Scammell his sister aboard the 'William Wilson' (transcript attached), English family correspondence and photographs, Scammell and Minchin family wills, correspondence and photographs, 300 diaries, paintings by R.E. Minchin (series 28 and 38, all available for viewing online) and sketchbook of Mount Gambier, Mount Schank and Victorian Grampians scenery (series 28A, OUTSIZE 1). Additional papers comprise private & zoo diaries of A.C. Minchin, World War I letters and photographs of T.W. Engli...
