Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City

Mansel, Philip

ISBN 10: 1784538477 / ISBN 13: 9781784538477

Published by I.B. Tauris, 2018

About this Item

Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City
• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784538477
• ISBN 13: 9781784538477
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

Revised and updated.
A poignant testament to the city shattered by Syria's civil war.
Aleppo lies in ruins, a casualty of Syria's brutal civil war. Its streets are cloaked in darkness, its population scattered, its memories ravaged. But this was once a vibrant world city, where Muslims, Christians and Jews lived and traded together in peace. Few places are as ancient and diverse. At the crossroads of global trade, Aleppo drew merchants from Venice, Isfahan and Agra to the largest souq in the Middle East and it was from here that some of the world's most enduring food, music and culture sprang.

About the Author

Philip Mansel, who has lived and taught in Paris, is one of Britain's leading historians of France and the Ottoman Empire. His first book, Louis XVIII, together with subsequent works such as Paris Between Empires, 1814-1852, established him as an authority on the later French monarchy. He currently lives in London, and is editor of The Court Historian, the journal of the Society for Court Studies (www.courtstudies.org).