The Damascus Events
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This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed moments in the
history of the Middle East: the ferocious outbreaks of disorder
across the Levant in 1860 which resulted in the massacre of
thousands of Christians in Damascus. Eugene Rogan brilliantly
recreates the lost world of the Middle East under Ottoman rule. The
once mighty empire was under pressure from global economic change
and European imperial expansion.Reforms in the mid-nineteenth
century raised tensions across the empire, nowhere more so than in
Damascus. A multifarious city linked by caravan trade to Baghdad,
the Mediterranean and Mecca, the chaos of languages, customs and
beliefs made Damascus a warily tolerant place. Until the reforms
began to advantage the minority Christian community at the expense
of the Muslim majority.But in 1860 people who had generally lived
side by side for generations became bitter enemies as news of civil
war in Mount Lebanon arrived in the city. Under the threat of a
French expeditionary force, the Ottomans dealt with the disaster
effectively and ruthlessly - but the old, generally quite tolerant
Damascene world lay in ruins. It would take a quarter of a century
to restore stability and prosperity to the Syrian capital.This is
both an essential book for understanding the emergence of the
modern Middle East from the destruction of the old Ottoman world,
and a uniquely gripping story.
Výber kníh autorov
Allen Lane ,
Eugene Rogan
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Allen Lane,
Eugene Rogan
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Slovart
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