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Levant The first English-language history of the Levant in the modern age Full descriptionRead More

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    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 Using unpublished family papers Philip Mansel describes their colourful contradictory history from the beginning of the French alliance with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth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.

  • Blackwell

    The first English-language history of the Levant in the modern age 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...

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    Levant : Paperback : John Murray Press : 9780719567087 : 0719567084 : 29 Sep 2011 : The first English-language history of the Levant in the modern age

  • 0719567084
  • 9780719567087
  • Philip Mansel
  • 29 September 2011
  • John Murray
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 480
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