Beirut
Widely praised as the definitive history of Beirut, this is the story of a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean civilization for more than four thousand years. The last major work completed by Samir Kassir before his tragic death in 2005, Beirut is a tour de force that takes the re...
| Основен автор: | Kassir, Samir. |
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| Други автори: | Fisk, Robert., DeBevoise, M. B. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English French |
| Публикувано: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2010.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=337600 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Beirut. |
| Резюме: |
Widely praised as the definitive history of Beirut, this is the story of a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean civilization for more than four thousand years. The last major work completed by Samir Kassir before his tragic death in 2005, Beirut is a tour de force that takes the reader from the ancient to the modern world, offering a dazzling panorama of the city's Seleucid, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French incarnations. Kassir vividly describes Beirut's spectacular growth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, concentrating on its emergence after the Second World War as. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (656 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-599) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780520947177 0520947177 |