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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Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower. BLACK AND WHITE The sea approach from the south - west , c.1860 The sea approach from the south - east , c.1860 The eastern walls in the early twentieth century A Muslim graveyard in ...
Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower. BLACK AND WHITE The sea approach from the south - west , c.1860 The sea approach from the south - east , c.1860 The eastern walls in the early twentieth century A Muslim graveyard in ...
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Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower. Introduction Beware of saying to them that sometimes cities ... Muslim towns and villages of Thrace and the bor- der with Turkey . From the moment I crossed the hectic confusion of ...
Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower. Introduction Beware of saying to them that sometimes cities ... Muslim towns and villages of Thrace and the bor- der with Turkey . From the moment I crossed the hectic confusion of ...
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... Muslim parents employed Christian wet - nurses for their children and Greek gardeners for their fruit trees ... Muslims within the terms of a single encompassing historical nar- rative . National histories generally have clearly defined ...
... Muslim parents employed Christian wet - nurses for their children and Greek gardeners for their fruit trees ... Muslims within the terms of a single encompassing historical nar- rative . National histories generally have clearly defined ...
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... Muslims turned into Turks , Christians into Greeks . Although in Salonica it was the Greeks who eventually got their state , and Bulgarians , Muslims and Jews who in different ways lost out , it is worth remembering that else- where ...
... Muslims turned into Turks , Christians into Greeks . Although in Salonica it was the Greeks who eventually got their state , and Bulgarians , Muslims and Jews who in different ways lost out , it is worth remembering that else- where ...
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... Muslim emirs , and behind them the mightiest state of all , that of the Mongol khans . By comparison , fight- ing ... Muslims , but their empire was built as much in Europe as it was in Asia . In fact before the sixteenth century they ...
... Muslim emirs , and behind them the mightiest state of all , that of the Mongol khans . By comparison , fight- ing ... Muslims , but their empire was built as much in Europe as it was in Asia . In fact before the sixteenth century they ...
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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