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Aleppo : the rise and fall of Syria's great merchant city / Philip Mansel.
By: Mansel, Philip [author.]
Publisher: London : I.B. Tauris, 2016Description: xii, 250 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, mapsContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781784534615Subject(s): Aleppo (Syria) -- History | Aleppo (Syria) -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 956.913
Contents:
Summary: The first half is a history of Aleppo, its social classes and their conflicts, its legacy of tolerance, and its mixed population of Muslims, Christians, and Jews; Arabs, Turks, and Westerners, until the recent civil war. The second half is excerpts from the writings of fifteen Western travellers or inhabitants.
Part 1. A history -- Part 2. Through travellers' eyes.
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 956.913 MAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 012731 |
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| 956.91042 ZIS Commanding Syria : Bashar al-Asad and the first years in power / | 956.910423 PHI The battle for Syria : international rivalry in the new Middle East / | 956.910423 SYR The Syrian war : between justice and political reality / | 956.913 MAN Aleppo : | 956.92 HAR Lebanon : | 956.9204 ABO Power sharing in Lebanon : consociationalism since 1820 / | 956.92044 ANG From Beirut to Jerusalem / |
Part 1. A history -- Part 2. Through travellers' eyes.
The first half is a history of Aleppo, its social classes and their conflicts, its legacy of tolerance, and its mixed population of Muslims, Christians, and Jews; Arabs, Turks, and Westerners, until the recent civil war. The second half is excerpts from the writings of fifteen Western travellers or inhabitants.