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Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950

Categorie	Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer	#413471-XX16
Titel	Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
Auteur	Mazower, Mark
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : HarperCollins
Jaar van uitgave	2004
ISBN10	0007120230
ISBN13	9780007120239
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original gilt lettered black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated endpapers, illustrated with photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	The history of a rarely written about, bewilderingly exotic city: 500 years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation. Salonica is the point where the wonders and horrors of the Orient and Europe have met over the centuries. Written with a Pepysian sense of the texture of daily life in the city through the ages, and with breathtakingly detailed historical research, Salonica will evoke the sights, smells, habits, songs and responses of a unique city and its inhabitants. The history of Salonica is one of forgotten alternatives and wrong choices, of identities assumed and discarded. For centuries Muslims, Christians, and Jews have succeeded each other in ascendancy, each people intent on erasing the presence of their pred... (Lees verder)ecessors, and the result is a city of cultural traditions and memories of extreme violence and genocide, one that sits on the overlapping hinterlands of both Europe and the East.
Pagina's	525
Conditie	Goed — Cut partly discoloured.
Prijs	€ 15,00

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