Beirut

Beirut

by Kassir, Samir

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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 …

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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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2010.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (656 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780520947177, 0520947177
  • oclc:ocn781364601
  • LC Classification:DS89.B4K3813 2010
  • Dewey Decimal:956.92/5

Subjects

Histoire History HISTORY ; General history (discipline)

Writers

Kassir, Samir DeBevoise, M. B. Fisk, Robert

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