Harper Collins Salonica: City of Ghosts

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The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of suleiman the magnificent to its nadir under occupation.

salonica is the point where the wonders and horrors of the orient and europe have met over the centuries. Written with a pepysian sense of the texture of daily life in the city through the ages, and with breathtakingly detailed historical research, salonica evokes the sights, smells, habits, songs and responses of a unique city and its inhabitants. The history of salonica is one of forgotten alternatives and wrong choices, of identities assumed and discarded.

For centuries, jews, christians, and muslims have succeeded each other in ascendancy, each people intent on erasing the presence of their predecessors. the result is a city of extraordinarily rich cultural traditions and memories of extreme violence and genocide, a city situated at the overlapping hinterlands of both europe and the east. Mark mazower has written a work of astonishing depth and originality about this remarkable city.

Magnificently researched and beautifully written, it is more than a book about a place

It studies in detail the way in which three great faiths and peoples have inhabited the same territory, and how smooth transitions and adaptations have been interwoven with violent endings and new beginnings.

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• Barcode No: 9780007120222
• Origin: GB