Narrative of the Late Expedition to Syria, Under the Command of Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford
Author: W. P. Hunter
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Published: 1842
Total Pages: 338
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Author: W. P. Hunter
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Published: 1842
Total Pages: 338
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Published: 1842
Total Pages: 342
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Published: 1842
Total Pages: 382
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: W. P. Hunter
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Published: 1842
Total Pages: 338
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Published: 1842
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philip Mansel
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011-05-24
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0300176228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNot so long ago, in certain cities on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean, Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived and flourished side by side. What can the histories of these cities tell us? Levant is a book of cities. It describes three former centers of great wealth, pleasure, and freedom—Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut—cities of the Levant region along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. In these key ports at the crossroads of East and West, against all expectations, cosmopolitanism and nationalism flourished simultaneously. People freely switched identities and languages, released from the prisons of religion and nationality. Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived and worshipped as neighbors.Distinguished historian Philip Mansel is the first to recount the colorful, contradictory histories of Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut in the modern age. He begins in the early days of the French alliance with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century and continues through the cities' mid-twentieth-century fates: Smyrna burned; Alexandria Egyptianized; Beirut lacerated by civil war.Mansel looks back to discern what these remarkable Levantine cities were like, how they differed from other cities, why they shone forth as cultural beacons. He also embarks on a quest: to discover whether, as often claimed, these cities were truly cosmopolitan, possessing the elixir of coexistence between Muslims, Christians, and Jews for which the world yearns. Or, below the glittering surface, were they volcanoes waiting to erupt, as the catastrophes of the twentieth century suggest? In the pages of the past, Mansel finds important messages for the fractured world of today.
Author: Michael Greenhalgh
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-07-01
Total Pages: 696
ISBN-13: 900440547X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book concentrates on the sometimes Greek but largely Roman survivals many travellers set out to see and perhaps possess throughout the immense Ottoman Empire, on what were eastward and southward extensions of the Grand Tour. Europeans were curious about the Empire, Christianity’s great rival for centuries, and plenty of information on its antiquities was available, offered here via lengthy quotations. Most accounts of the history of collecting and museums concentrate on the European end. Plundered Empire details how and where antiquities were sought, uncovered, bartered, paid for or stolen, and any tribulations in getting them home. The book provides evidence for the continuing debate about the ethics of museum collections, with 19th century international competition the spur to spectacular acquisitions.
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 476
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Published: 1842
Total Pages: 716
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Imperial Library, Calcutta
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 472
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