Levant
Splendour and Catastophe on the Mediterranean
Philip Mansel
ISBN: | 9780719567070 |
Publisher: | John Murray General Publishing Division |
Published: | 11 November, 2010 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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Levant
Splendour and Catastophe on the Mediterranean
Philip Mansel
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 Using unpublished family papers, Philip Mansel describes their colourful, contradictory history, from the beginning of the French alliance with the Ottoman Empire in the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.
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