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A Tale of Two, or Three, or More Cities

June 1, 2017 | SuzyQ
Once in a great city : a Detroit story by David Maraniss
Paris : the secret history by Andrew Hussey
Florence : a portrait by Michael Levey
London : the biography by Peter Ackroyd
City of dreams : the 400-year epic history of immigrant New York by Tyler Anbinder
Barcelona by Robert Hughes
Beijing : from imperial capital to Olympic city by Lillian M. Li
The storied city : the quest for Timbuktu and the fantastic mission to save its past by Charlie English
Prague in black and gold : scenes from the life of a European city by Peter Demetz
The rise of Athens : the story of the world's greatest civilization by Anthony Everitt
Rome : a cultural, visual, and personal history by Robert Hughes
Tokyo : a biography : disasters, destruction and renewal : the story of an indomitable city by Stephen Mansfield
Venice : history of the floating city by Joanne Marie Ferraro
Chicago : a biography by Dominic A Pacyga
Jerusalem : the biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
A borrowed place : the history of Hong Kong by Frank Welsh
Mecca : the sacred city by Ziauddin Sardar
Odessa : genius and death in a city of dreams by Charles King
Cairo : histories of a city by Nezar AlSayyad
Baghdad : city of peace, city of blood--a history in thirteen centuries by Justin Marozzi
City of gold : Dubai and the dream of capitalism by Jim Krane
Calcutta : two years in the city by Amit Chaudhuri
Amsterdam : a history of the world's most liberal city by Russell Shorto
Havana : a subtropical delirium by Mark Kurlansky
Istanbul : a tale of three cities by Bettany Hughes
Making Monte Carlo : a history of speculation and spectacle by Mark Braude

A rollicking narrative history of Jazz Age Monte Carlo, chronicling the city's rise from WWI's ashes to become one of the world's most storied, infamous playgrounds of the rich.

Granada : a pomegranate in the hand of God by Steven Nightingale
In the shadow of Vesuvius : a cultural history of Naples by Jordan Lancaster
The epic city : the world on the streets of Calcutta by Kushanava Choudhury

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