Beirut

Beirut
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 656
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ISBN-10 : 9780520256682
ISBN-13 : 0520256689
Rating : 4/5 (689 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Beirut by : Samir Kassir

Download or read book Beirut written by Samir Kassir and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beirut is a tour de force that takes the reader from the ancient to the modern world, offering a dazzling panorama of the city's Seleucid, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French incarnations. Kassir vividly describes Beirut's spectacular growth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, concentrating on its emergence after the Second World War as a cosmopolitan capital until its near destruction during the devastating Lebanese civil war of 1975-1990. --from publisher description.


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