Histories of Cities

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Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties 4.37 avg rating — 491 ratings
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London: The Biography
London: The Biography 3.96 avg rating — 5,912 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
The Devil in the White City really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,791 ratings
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Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 4.33 avg rating — 1,491 ratings
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London
London 4.09 avg rating — 33,576 ratings
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Seven Ages of Paris
Seven Ages of Paris 3.91 avg rating — 2,687 ratings
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A History of Venice
A History of Venice 4.17 avg rating — 2,093 ratings
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Jerusalem: The Biography
Jerusalem: The Biography 4.09 avg rating — 12,984 ratings
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A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community 4.15 avg rating — 422 ratings
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Barcelona
Barcelona 3.82 avg rating — 1,570 ratings
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A Short History of Byzantium
A Short History of Byzantium 4.11 avg rating — 2,596 ratings
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Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 4.30 avg rating — 2,772 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives
The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives
by: Plutarch
4.08 avg rating — 1,964 ratings
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Notre-Dame of Paris
Notre-Dame of Paris 4.02 avg rating — 213,367 ratings
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Cairo: The City Victorious
Cairo: The City Victorious 4.06 avg rating — 466 ratings
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St. Petersburg: A Cultural History
St. Petersburg: A Cultural History 4.18 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Gomorrah: A Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
Gomorrah: A Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System 3.80 avg rating — 21,839 ratings
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The City of Falling Angels
The City of Falling Angels 3.55 avg rating — 17,134 ratings
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The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome
by: Livy
3.96 avg rating — 9,757 ratings
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Magic Prague
Magic Prague 4.09 avg rating — 304 ratings
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A History of Venice: Queen of the Seas
A History of Venice: Queen of the Seas 3.96 avg rating — 177 ratings
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A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889
A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,546 ratings
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Dr. Johnson's London
Dr. Johnson's London 4.04 avg rating — 778 ratings
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Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes
Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes 3.82 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam
by: Geert Mak
3.90 avg rating — 1,894 ratings
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Thunder at Twilight: Vienna, 1913/1914
Thunder at Twilight: Vienna, 1913/1914 4.08 avg rating — 1,019 ratings
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Death and Life of Great American Cities 4.29 avg rating — 19,189 ratings
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi 4.13 avg rating — 13,054 ratings
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London: The Biography of a City
London: The Biography of a City 4.02 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870
Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870 4.03 avg rating — 1,432 ratings
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City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire 4.15 avg rating — 4,122 ratings
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Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London 3.97 avg rating — 1,037 ratings
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Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 3.96 avg rating — 435 ratings
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The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice 3.74 avg rating — 926 ratings
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Detroit: A Biography
Detroit: A Biography 3.71 avg rating — 1,098 ratings
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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found 3.94 avg rating — 11,196 ratings
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London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets
London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets 3.46 avg rating — 3,285 ratings
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Istanbul: Memories and the City
Istanbul: Memories and the City 3.82 avg rating — 21,661 ratings
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History of Saint Louis City and County, from the earliest periods to the present day: including biographical sketches of representative men
History of Saint Louis City and County, from the earliest periods to the present day: including biographical sketches of representative men 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris 3.94 avg rating — 20,408 ratings
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History of Rome
History of Rome 3.93 avg rating — 550 ratings
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Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy
Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy 3.94 avg rating — 295 ratings
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London: A Social History
London: A Social History 3.77 avg rating — 316 ratings
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Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture 4.09 avg rating — 1,578 ratings
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Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City
Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City 3.31 avg rating — 1,304 ratings
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Transforming Paris: The Life and Labors of Baron Haussmann
Transforming Paris: The Life and Labors of Baron Haussmann 3.75 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Restoration London : Everyday Life in the 1660s
Restoration London : Everyday Life in the 1660s 4.10 avg rating — 726 ratings
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Athens: A Portrait of the City in its Golden Age
Athens: A Portrait of the City in its Golden Age 4.21 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Venice: Pure City
Venice: Pure City 3.60 avg rating — 1,399 ratings
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Florence: The Biography of a City
Florence: The Biography of a City 3.87 avg rating — 260 ratings
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The Great Cities in History
The Great Cities in History 3.42 avg rating — 549 ratings
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Berkeley: A City in History
Berkeley: A City in History 3.77 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Kiev
Kiev 3.64 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865
The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865 3.96 avg rating — 235 ratings
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Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven
Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven 4.09 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West 4.26 avg rating — 3,509 ratings
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City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America 4.07 avg rating — 1,696 ratings
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Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin
Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin 4.31 avg rating — 283 ratings
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America 4.17 avg rating — 11,143 ratings
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Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture
Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture 3.78 avg rating — 402 ratings
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Dubrovnik: A History
Dubrovnik: A History 3.87 avg rating — 83 ratings
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles 4.21 avg rating — 4,679 ratings
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Trieste and The Meaning of Nowhere
Trieste and The Meaning of Nowhere really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,818 ratings
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Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931–1941
Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931–1941 4.05 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City
The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City 3.51 avg rating — 452 ratings
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Microcosm: A Portrait of a Central European City
Microcosm: A Portrait of a Central European City 4.01 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Melbourne (The City Series)
Melbourne (The City Series) 3.56 avg rating — 326 ratings
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Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528
Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528 3.86 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams 3.81 avg rating — 496 ratings
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The Fall of the Athenian Empire
The Fall of the Athenian Empire 4.09 avg rating — 278 ratings
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Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties
Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties 3.47 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood
Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 312 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of Rome
The Decline and Fall of Rome 3.86 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Pompeii : The Living City
Pompeii : The Living City 3.90 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Paris: Capital of Europe : From the Revolution to the Belle Epoque
Paris: Capital of Europe : From the Revolution to the Belle Epoque 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris
Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris 3.80 avg rating — 30 ratings
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A City Lost and Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne
A City Lost and Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne 4.02 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Makers of Rome
Makers of Rome
by: Plutarch
4.19 avg rating — 2,169 ratings
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The Stones of Florence
The Stones of Florence 3.69 avg rating — 733 ratings
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St. Louis from Village to Metropolis: Essays from the Missouri Historical Review, 1906-2006
St. Louis from Village to Metropolis: Essays from the Missouri Historical Review, 1906-2006
by: Gerteis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Paris and the Nineteenth Century
Paris and the Nineteenth Century 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 4.02 avg rating — 15,256 ratings
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Canberra
Canberra 3.62 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Rome: The Biography of a City
Rome: The Biography of a City 3.89 avg rating — 352 ratings
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Darwin
Darwin
by: Tess Lea
3.76 avg rating — 58 ratings
86.
Cities and Civilizations
Cities and Civilizations 3.87 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London
Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London 3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City 4.11 avg rating — 5,627 ratings
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William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles
William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles 3.73 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
91.
American Odyssey - A History of a Great City
American Odyssey - A History of a Great City 4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings
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American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
by: Jack Tar
4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape 4.05 avg rating — 4,482 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code 4.01 avg rating — 3,647 ratings
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Knight of the Purple Ribbon
Knight of the Purple Ribbon 3.56 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty
The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty 3.77 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Photo Book of Chicago World's Columbian Exposition 1893
Photo Book of Chicago World's Columbian Exposition 1893 4.48 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Portland: A Food Biography
Portland: A Food Biography 4.13 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Downtown: My Manhattan
Downtown: My Manhattan 3.98 avg rating — 1,513 ratings
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Why Old Places Matter: How Historic Places Affect Our Identity and Well-Being
Why Old Places Matter: How Historic Places Affect Our Identity and Well-Being 4.05 avg rating — 79 ratings
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