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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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Description 1 online resource (470 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
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.
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Subject Mediterranean Region -- History.
Mediterranean Region.
History.
Middle East -- History.
Middle East.
İzmir (Turkey) -- History.
Beirut (Lebanon) -- History.
Alexandria (Egypt) -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Mansel, Philip, 1951- Levant. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011 9780300172645 (DLC) 2011920105 (OCoLC)670481481
ISBN 9780300176223 (electronic book)
0300176228 (electronic book)
1283150654
9781283150651
9780300172645
0300172648