About this title: From the author of the greatly praised "Dark Continent" comes a richly textured social history of the Aegean seaport that has been a crossroads of civilization since the dawn of Byzantium. of photos, 8 in full color.
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Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY
Date Published: 2005
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. History Excellent condition Minor shelf wear. Dust jacket is corner clipped. Text is clean and unmarked. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780375727382ISBN:0375727388
Description: Very Good. Text pages clean & tight with no markings or highlighting. Cover in good condition with back upper corner creased as well as some of last upper pages. Located in northern Greece, Salonica was long a crossroads metropolis of different religions & ethnicities. Extremely readable copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2005-04-26
ISBN-13:9780375412981ISBN:0375412980
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2005-04-26
ISBN-13:9780375412981ISBN:0375412980
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780375412981ISBN:0375412980
Description: 32 Pages of Illustrations (many photos) 10 Maps. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Like new First American Edition(stated) hardcover in like new dustjacket, no marks, not a remiander, not price clipped, new archival mylar on jacket, many photos, very reliable shipper(shelf#29) read more
Edition: 3rd Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780375412981ISBN:0375412980
Description: As New in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover corners and edges are unmarred. Binding is tight. 490pp. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 2006-05-09
ISBN-13:9780375727382ISBN:0375727388
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780375727382ISBN:0375727388
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780007120222ISBN:0007120222
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 352 pages. (352 pages) the history of a rarely written about, bewilderingly exotic city: 500 years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of suleiman the magnificent to its nadir under nazi occupation. illustrations, maps, ports. (Paperback) read more
Description: Fine. 0375412980 First American edition, First printing! Practically a new book-no signs of usage. No remainder marks, price clips or other imperfections. read more
Edition: First Edition; Third Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780375412981ISBN:0375412980
Description: New in New dust jacket. 0375412980. New; Brand new third printing hardcover and dust jacket in excellent condition. Protective mylar cover.; 1.61 x 9.66 x 6.36 Inches; 528 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780375412981ISBN:0375412980
Description: Hardcover. Not Pretty. Pages Pulled from Spine; Some Writing/Highlighting/Bent Pages; Small Tear on Front Cover; Slight Staining/Frayed Corners/Bent Cover. SKU: 23386314 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee ISBN: 9780375412981 Not Pretty. Pages Pulled from Spine; Some Writing/Highlighting/Bent Pages; Small Tear on Front Cover; Slight Staining/Frayed Corners/Bent Cover. SKU: 23386314 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee. read more
"I recommend this book for anyone who enjoys reading history, particularly anyone interested in East European history. This book gives a fascinating account of the complex city of Salonica over five centuries. In the fifteenth century, the Byzantine city of Salonica was conquered by the Ottoman Empire. Not long after that, wave after wave of Jews from western Europe began arriving in Salonica to escape persecution, and the Jewish inhabitants were soon the largest population segment in the city. Mazower details elegaically a city where followers of Greek Orthodox, Jewish, and Muslim faiths all rubbed shoulders and interacted on a daily basis. With the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the turn of the twentieth century, an equally complex chapter opened for Salonica as nationalist interests meant Greeks, Turks, Bulgarians, and Macedonians all battled for influence over the key European port. As Mazower describes the city's forced population exchanges and genocides of the twentieth century, he paints a grim portrait of the extremes nations will go to in order to manipulate history to their own benefit and to erase unwanted reminders of the past. This book probably isn't for everybody - it's a long, dense book, and an initial familiarity with Balkan history would likely prove helpful to understanding the setting's larger scope. Otherwise, I recommend this book highly."
"An amazing look at a city in a time and a place I knew next to nothing about. What is now called Thessaloniki, the second-city of an almost entirely Christian and ethnically homogenous country, was once Salonica, a mishmash of cultures and languages under Ottoman rule - with the three major religions existing side-by-side: the Muslim ruling class, the conquered Greek Christians whose religious practices were tolerated (with limits) and Sephardic Jews who were invited by the Ottomans to resettle in Greece after their expulsion from Spain. In the 20th century, Greek reconquest and Nazi occupation essentially re-Christianized what had been a polyglot city, erasing a past that defies modern notions of multiculturalism and diversity."
"The city now called Thessaloniki already had me completely fascinated before I read this book. I'd visited once in 1994 and still dream of going back. When I do make it there again, it will be a hundred times more interesting to me for having read this book. The subtitle "City of Ghosts" will feel especially apt if you ever go there to experience the modern, thoroughly Greek, city, and consider that until the 20th century it was hardly Greek at all. A cosmopolitan mix of religion and nationality that bears little relation to what one sees now. You'd have been as likely to hear Spanish or Ladhino on the street as you would Greek, or maybe Turkish. The book is readable and fascinating throughout, with some great pics. I had the wildly unexpected pleasure of meeting the author (and his charming Egyptian wife, also a scholar) at a party in Boston. A nice, normal guy, in case an author's niceness matters to you."
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