Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007 M12 18 - 544 pages Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely prevailed until the twentieth century when the Greek army marched in, Muslims were forced out, and the Nazis deported and killed the Jews. As the acclaimed historian Mark Mazower follows the city’s inhabitants through plague, invasion, famine, and the disastrous twentieth century, he resurrects a fascinating and vanished world. |
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... Europe 9 Travellers and the European Imagination IO The Possibilities of a Past II In the Frankish Style 12 The Macedonia Question , 1878-1908 13 The Young Turk Revolution PART III / Making the City Greek 14 The Return of Saint ...
... Europe 9 Travellers and the European Imagination IO The Possibilities of a Past II In the Frankish Style 12 The Macedonia Question , 1878-1908 13 The Young Turk Revolution PART III / Making the City Greek 14 The Return of Saint ...
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... European officers witness the hanging of the alleged murderers of the two consuls following the disturbances of 1876 , by Pierre Loti Ottoman street life : hamal or porter , vendor of lemonade , and sellers of leeches The old konaki The ...
... European officers witness the hanging of the alleged murderers of the two consuls following the disturbances of 1876 , by Pierre Loti Ottoman street life : hamal or porter , vendor of lemonade , and sellers of leeches The old konaki The ...
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... European and Ottoman history into nothing more than a prelude to genocide , over- shadowing the many centuries when Jews had lived in relative peace , and both their problems and their prospects had been of a different kind . In Molho's ...
... European and Ottoman history into nothing more than a prelude to genocide , over- shadowing the many centuries when Jews had lived in relative peace , and both their problems and their prospects had been of a different kind . In Molho's ...
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... European history . Turkish scholars and writers , and professional Ottomanists , had not done much to rec- tify things . It suited everyone , it seemed , to ignore the fact that there had once existed in this corner of Europe an Ottoman ...
... European history . Turkish scholars and writers , and professional Ottomanists , had not done much to rec- tify things . It suited everyone , it seemed , to ignore the fact that there had once existed in this corner of Europe an Ottoman ...
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... Europe is the speed of their con- struction . Often only a few years were necessary for their completion . Such ... European states could manage at this time . The highly centralized nature of Ottoman authority helped , but the real ...
... Europe is the speed of their con- struction . Often only a few years were necessary for their completion . Such ... European states could manage at this time . The highly centralized nature of Ottoman authority helped , but the real ...
Contents
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Messiahs Martyrs and Miracles | 64 |
Janissaries and Other Plagues | 94 |
Commerce and the Greeks | 114 |
Pashas Beys and Moneylenders | 133 |
Religion in the Age of Reform | 150 |
The Return of Saint Dimitrios | 275 |
The First World War | 286 |
The Great Fire | 298 |
The Muslim Exodus | 311 |
City of Refugees | 333 |
Workers and the State | 347 |
Dressing for the Tango | 359 |
Greeks and Jews | 375 |
Travellers and the European Imagination | 175 |
IO The Possibilities of a Past | 192 |
In the Frankish Style | 209 |
The Macedonia Question 18781908 | 238 |
The Young Turk Revolution | 255 |
Genocide | 392 |
Aftermath | 412 |
The Memory of the Dead | 429 |
Glossary | 469 |
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