| Description |
xx, 340 pages : plates, portraits ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Athens: the Periclean age / Sir Maurice Bowra -- Rome under the Antonines / Jerome Carcopino -- Christian Constantinople / Steven Runciman -- Medieval Paris / David Douglas -- Medicean Florence / Harold Acton -- Rome of the popes / Cecil Sprigge -- The Venetian republic / Victor Cunard -- Madrid under the House of Austria / R. Trevor Davies -- Paris, Versailles, and the "grand siècle" / Jacques Chastenet -- Vienna under Metternich / Alan Pryce-Jones -- Jubilee London / Roger Fulford -- Twentieth-century New York / Robert Waithman |
| Notes |
<Historical essays on the great cities of Europe, and New York.> |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 323-325 |
| Subject |
Cities and towns -- History.
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Civilization.
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| SUBJECT |
New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091415
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| Author |
Bowra, C. M. (Cecil Maurice), 1898-1971.
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| LC no. |
52007973 |
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