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Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterran... by Philip Mansel Hardback
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- Title
- Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean
- Book Title
- Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean
- ISBN
- 0719567076
- EAN
- 9780719567070
- Binding
- Hardback
- Date of Publication
- 20101111
- Release Title
- Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean
- Artist
- Philip Mansel
- Brand
- N/A
- Colour
- N/A
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean
- Item Height
- 42 mm
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Subject
- History
- Item Weight
- 792 g
- Item Width
- 159 mm
- Number of Pages
- 480 Pages
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Levant is a book of cities. It describes the role of Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut as windows on the world, escapes from nationality and tradition, centres of wealth, pleasure and freedom. By their mix of races and religions, they challenge stereotypes. France and Britain liberated the area through their schools, while conquering it through arms. They were not only manipulators but manipulated, often invited in by local factions. Smyrna and Beirut became centres of Turkish and Arab nationalism. Using unpublished family papers Philip Mansel describes their colourful, contradictory history, from the beginning of the French alliance with the Ottoman Empire in the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. Levant is the first history in English of these cities in the modern age... Levant is also a challenge from history. It is about ourselves; it shows how Muslims, Christians and Jews live together in cities. Levantine compromises, putting deals befor ideals, pragmatism before ideology, made these cities work, until states reclaimed them for nationalism. Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut have a message for today. The new Levantine cities of the twenty-first century, with comparable mixes of races and religions, are London, Paris and New York.
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Publisher
John Murray Press
ISBN-13
9780719567070
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Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean
Publication Year
2010
Subject
History
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
42 mm
Item Weight
792 g
Item Width
159 mm
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United Kingdom
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