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34%OFFMark Mazower - Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews - 9780007120222 - V9780007120222
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Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews

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Description for Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews Paperback. The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations , maps , ports. BIC Classification: 1DVG; HBJD; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 39. Weight in Grams: 424.

The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred 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 evokes the sights, smells, habits, songs ... Read more

Mark Mazower has written a work of astonishing depth and originality about this remarkable city. Magnificently researched and beautifully written, it is more than a book about a place; it studies in detail the way in which three great faiths and peoples have inhabited the same territory, and how smooth transitions and adaptations have been interwoven with violent endings and new beginnings.

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Product Details

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007120222
SKU
V9780007120222
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About Mark Mazower
Mark Mazower is the author of ‘Inside Hitler's Greece’ (Yale), ‘Dark Continent’ (Penguin Press) and ‘The Balkans’ (Weidenfeld). He is professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Reviews for Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews
‘A necessary masterpiece…a pleasure to read and curiously moreish.’ Louis de Bernieres, The Times ‘A tremendous book about a city unique not just in Europe, but in the entire history of humanity. Mazower…has done the old place proud…and has celebrated once and for all the mighty and fateful ... Read more

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