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Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean - Mansel, Philip, Dr.
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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. Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut challenge stereotypes. They were both cosmopolitan cities and centres of 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 Using unpublished family papers, Philip Mansel describes their colourful, contradictory history, from the beginning of the French alliance with the Ottoman Empire in the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 ...

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Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean 2012, Yale University Press

ISBN-13: 9780300181715

Trade paperback

Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean 2011, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

ISBN-13: 9780300172645

Hardcover

Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean 2011, John Murray Publishers Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780719567087

Mass-market paperback

Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean 2010, John Murray Publishers Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780719567070

Hardcover