| Description |
1 online resource (656 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Beirut before Beirut / Robert Fisk -- 2. Great Transformation / Robert Fisk -- 3. Ibrahim Pasha Era / Robert Fisk -- 4. Roads from Damascus / Robert Fisk -- 5. Window on Ottoman Modernity / Robert Fisk -- 6. Cultural Revolution / Robert Fisk -- 7. Between Boston and Rome / Robert Fisk -- 8. Horizon of the World / Robert Fisk -- 9. Uncertain Identities / Robert Fisk -- 10. France Broadens Its Mission / Robert Fisk -- 11. French City / Robert Fisk -- 12. Grand-Liban and Petit Paris / Robert Fisk -- 13. Crucible for Independence / Robert Fisk -- 14. Switzerland of the East / Robert Fisk -- 15. Beirut, Male and Female / Robert Fisk -- 16. Pleasures of the World / Robert Fisk -- 17. Ecochard's Lost Wagers / Robert Fisk -- 18. On the Knife's Edge / Robert Fisk -- 19. End of Innocence / Robert Fisk -- 20. Beirut, O Beirut! / Robert Fisk |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-599) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
History.
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History
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history (discipline)
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HISTORY -- General.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fisk, Robert.
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DeBevoise, M. B.
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| ISBN |
9780520947177 |
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0520947177 |
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