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Author Mansel, Philip, 1951-

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

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Location Call No. Status
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  909.09 MAN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  909.09 MANSEL    DUE 05-13-24
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  909.09 MA    Check Shelf
Description 470 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-450) 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.
Subject Mediterranean Region -- History.
Middle East -- History.
İzmir (Turkey) -- History.
Beirut (Lebanon) -- History.
Alexandria (Egypt) -- History.
ISBN 9780300172645: $35.00
0300172648
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