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Author:

Mansel, Philip, 1951-

Title:

Levant : splendour and catastrophe on the Mediterranean / Philip Mansel.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

470 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Mediterranean Region--History.
Middle East--History.
İzmir (Turkey)--History.
Alexandria (Egypt)--History.
Beirut (Lebanon)--History.

Notes:

Originally published: London : John Murray, 2010. Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-450) and index.

Contents:

The vineyards of Pera -- Smyrna : the eye of Asia -- Smyrna : massacres and merriment -- Alexandria : the key to Egypt -- Alexandria : bid for empire -- Beirut : the republic of merchants -- Alexandria : khedives and consuls -- Alexandria : the British years -- Beirut : the jewel in the crown of the Padishah -- Smyrna : Greeks and Turks -- Drifting cities -- Catastrophe and liberation -- Alexandria : queen of the Mediterranean -- Egyptianization -- Beirut : birth of a capital -- The Paris of the Middle East -- The dance of death -- New Levants for old.

ISBN:

0300172648
9780300172645

LCCN:

2011920105

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