The Great Cities in History

A new book edited by John Julius Norwich with that title selects the 68 cities that have made the most impact on history. The Wall St. Journal has a review.

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October 26, 2009, 1:00 PM PDT

By Tim Halbur

"The world has, for much of its history, been a place of fragments. During the Middle Ages, many cities were so far-flung as to be virtually unknown to each other. Cairo, Palermo, Benin, Angkor and the Incan capital of Cuzco were "great" but only in isolation. And greatness, often, was a product of the imagination."

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 in The Wall St. Journal

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