This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle East: the ferocious outbreaks of disorder across the Levant in 1860 which resulted in the massacre of thousands of Christians in Damascus. Eugene Rogan brilliantly recreates the lost world of the Middle East under Ottoman rule. The once mighty empire was under pressure from global economic change and European imperial expansion. Reforms in the mid-nineteenth century raised tensions across the empire, nowhere more so than in Damascus. A multifarious city linked by caravan trade to Baghdad, the Mediterran The Damascus Events - Eugene Rogan od authora Eugene Rogan a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Eugene Rogan |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
400 |
Rok vydání |
2024 |
Nakladatelství |
Allen Lane |