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Author:

Kassir, Samir.

Title:

Beirut / Samir Kassir ; translated by M.B. DeBevoise ; foreword by Robert Fisk.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

2011, c2010

Description:

xxvi, 627 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Beirut (Lebanon)--History.

Other Titles:

Histoire de Beyrouth. English

Notes:

Originally published: 2010. Includes bibliographical references (p. 589-599) and index.

Contents:

The eyes of the mind -- From the ancient to the modern world. Beirut before Beirut -- The great transformation -- The Ibrahim Pasha era -- The roads from Damascus -- A window on Ottoman modernity -- The awakening. A cultural revolution -- Between Boston and Rome -- The horizon of the world -- Uncertain identities -- The capital of the mandate. France broadens its mission -- The French city -- Grand-Liban and Petite Paris -- A crucible for independence -- The cosmopolitan metropolis of the Arabs. The Switzerland of the East -- Beirut, male and female -- The pleasures of the world -- �Eochard's lost wagers -- The city of every danger. On the knife's edge -- The end of innocence -- Beirut, o Beirut! -- To be or to have been.

ISBN:

0520271262 (pbk.)
9780520271265 (pbk.) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)751795742

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)