Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean
ISBN-13:
9780719567087
ISBN-10:
0719567084
Author:
Philip Mansel
Publication date:
2011
Publisher:
John Murray Publishers
Format:
Paperback
480 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780719567087
ISBN-10:
0719567084
Author:
Philip Mansel
Publication date:
2011
Publisher:
John Murray Publishers
Format:
Paperback
480 pages
Summary
Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean (ISBN-13: 9780719567087 and ISBN-10: 0719567084), written by authors
Philip Mansel, was published by John Murray Publishers in 2011.
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Levantis 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they were windows on the world, escapes from nationality and tradition, centres of wealth, pleasure and freedom.Using unpublished family papers, Philip Mansel describes their colourful, contradictory history, from the beginning of the French alliance with the Ottoman Empire in the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.
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