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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... ( London ) " An extraordinary book by a historian with a wonderful appetite for complexity . " -Newsday " Enthralling .... Tragic , hopeful and beautifully written , Salonica , City of Ghosts shows how cities , as much as people , can be ...
... ( London ) " An extraordinary book by a historian with a wonderful appetite for complexity . " -Newsday " Enthralling .... Tragic , hopeful and beautifully written , Salonica , City of Ghosts shows how cities , as much as people , can be ...
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... ( London ) " Masterly . . . . A brilliant and timely reminder that cities have played as important a role as states in the lives of their inhabitants . " -The Spectator ( London ) " Mazower has succeeded so well that scholars of all ...
... ( London ) " Masterly . . . . A brilliant and timely reminder that cities have played as important a role as states in the lives of their inhabitants . " -The Spectator ( London ) " Mazower has succeeded so well that scholars of all ...
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... London . His books include Dark Continent : Europe's Twentieth Century and Inside Hitler's Greece : The Experience of Occupation , 1941-44 , winner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History and the Longman / History Today Award for ...
... London . His books include Dark Continent : Europe's Twentieth Century and Inside Hitler's Greece : The Experience of Occupation , 1941-44 , winner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History and the Longman / History Today Award for ...
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... London. His books include Dark Continent: E1/1-ope} Twerztieth Cenrmjy and Inside Hirlcriv G1-em: The E.rpcI'icme 0fOn"/zpzlrion, 1 941-44, winner of the Fraenkel Prize in (Iontemporar_\~' History and the Longm-.m/Histor_v Today Award ...
... London. His books include Dark Continent: E1/1-ope} Twerztieth Cenrmjy and Inside Hirlcriv G1-em: The E.rpcI'icme 0fOn"/zpzlrion, 1 941-44, winner of the Fraenkel Prize in (Iontemporar_\~' History and the Longm-.m/Histor_v Today Award ...
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... London, in 2004. Subsequently published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. in 2005. Vintage and colophon are registered u-adem~.n-ks oFRnndom House, Inc. The Library of ...
... London, in 2004. Subsequently published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. in 2005. Vintage and colophon are registered u-adem~.n-ks oFRnndom House, Inc. The Library of ...
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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