Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean - Softcover

Mansel, Philip

 
9780719567087: Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0719567084 ISBN 13: 9780719567087
Verlag: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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Using unpublished family papers, Philip Mansel describes their colourful, contradictory history, from the beginning of the French alliance with the Ottoman Empire in the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

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Philip Mansel is a historian of France and the Ottoman Empire. He has written histories of Constantinople and nineteenth-century Paris, as well as biographies of Louis XVIII and the Prince de Ligne. Six of his books have been translated into French. He writes for the Art Newspaper, the Times Literary Supplement and The Spectator. While writing LEVANT, he lived in Beirut and Istanbul. In 2012 Philip Mansel was awarded the prestigious London Library Life in Literature Award in recognition of the quality of both his writing and his scholarship.

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Verlag
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719567084
ISBN 13 
9780719567087
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
480
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