Beirut

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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 a cosmopolitan capital until its near destruction during the devastating Lebanese civil war of 1975-1990. --from publisher description.

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Full title :Beirut / Samir Kassir ; translated by M.B. DeBevoise ; foreword by Robert Fisk.

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Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of California Press
Place of Publication:Berkeley
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

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The Physical Object

Description:xxvi, 627 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780520256682, 0520256689, 9780520271265, 0520271262
oclc:ocn436221307
LC Classification:DS89.B4
Dewey Decimal:956.92/5

The eyes of the mind -- From the ancient to the modern world. Beirut before Beirut -- The great transformation -- The Ibrahim Pasha era -- The roads from Damascus -- A window on Ottoman modernity -- The awakening. A cultural revolution -- Between Boston and Rome -- The horizon of the world -- Uncertain identities -- The capital of the mandate. France broadens its mission -- The French city -- Grand-Liban and Petite Paris -- A crucible for independence -- The cosmopolitan metropolis of the Arabs. The Switzerland of the East -- Beirut, male and female -- The pleasures of the world -- Éochard's lost wagers -- The city of every danger. On the knife's edge -- The end of innocence -- Beirut, o Beirut! -- To be or to have been.