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Levant : splendour and catastrophe on the Mediterranean

By: Mansel, Philip

John Murray Publishers Ltd
0719567084 / 9780719567087
Paperback
956
29/09/2011
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England
20 cm 480 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map., ports.
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Reprint. Originally published: 2010.

Levant is a book of cities. It describes Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut when they were windows on the world, escapes from nationality and tradition, centres of wealth, pleasure and freedom.

Using unpublished family papers, Philip Mansel describes their colourful, contradictory history, from the beginning of the French alliance with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century to their decline in the mid twentieth century.

Smyrna was burnt; Alexandria Egyptianised; Beirut lacerated by civil war.

BIC:

1FB Middle East, HBJF1 Middle Eastern history

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