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Levant

Levant Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean

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Publisher's Synopsis

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Using unpublished family papers, Philip Mansel describes their colourful, contradictory history, from the beginning of the French alliance with the Ottoman Empire in the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

Book information

ISBN: 9780719567087
Publisher: John Murray Press
Imprint: John Murray
Pub date:
DEWEY: 956
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 480
Weight: 350g
Height: 197mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 31mm