Levant
Subtitle: splendour and catastrophe on the Mediterranean
By: Philip Mansel
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780300172645
Subjects: History
Notes: Originally published: London : John Murray, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-450) and index.
Table of contents: title: The vineyards of Pera; title: Smyrna : the eye of Asia; title: Smyrna : massacres and merriment; title: Alexandria : the key to Egypt; title: Alexandria : bid for empire; title: Beirut : the republic of merchants; title: Alexandria : khedives and consuls; title: Alexandria : the British years; title: Beirut : the jewel in the crown of the Padishah; title: Smyrna : Greeks and Turks; title: Drifting cities; title: Catastrophe and liberation; title: Alexandria : queen of the Mediterranean; title: Egyptianization; title: Beirut : birth of a capital; title: The Paris of the Middle East; title: The dance of death; title: New Levants for old.