Dubrovnik: A History

ISBN-13: 9780863569593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 504 str.

Robin Harris

Opis

Detailed, scholarly and eminently readable, Dubrovnik is a triumph of book production. This is a splendid volume. The Literary Review
There are few introductions to the city s past available to general readers . . . Harris splendid study meets this need admirably. The Times Literary Supplement
A fascinating and scholarly account. Daily Telegraph
Since emerging as a settlement in the seventh century, Dubrovnik held a significant position beyond what could have been expected of this tiny city-state. Its merchants, trading throughout the huge Ottoman Empire, enjoyed privileges denied to other Western states. A politically skilled and commercially enterprising ruling class took every opportunity to maximize the republic s wealth.
Dubrovnik also faced the extreme dangers posed by Venetian aggressors, Ottoman plotters, a terrible earthquake in 1667, and, finally, the will of Napoleon. In 1991 and 1992, the city survived the besieging Yugoslav army, which heavily damaged but did not destroy Dubrovnik s cultural heritage. This book is a comprehensive history of Dubrovnik s progress over twelve centuries of European development, encompassing arts, architecture, social and economic changes, and the traumas of war and politics."