Salonica, city of ghosts : Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950 / Mark Mazower.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mazower, Mark

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thessalonikē (Greece)--History.

Thessalonikē (Greece).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 490 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

pt. 1. The rose of Sultan Murad

Conquest, 1430

Mosques and Hamams

The arrival of the Sefardim

Messiahs, martyrs, and miracles

Janissaries and other plagues

Commerce and the Greeks

Pashas, beys, and money-lenders

Religion in the age of reform

pt. 2. In the shadow of Europe

Travellers and the European imagination

The possibilities of a past

In the Frankish style

The Macedonia question, 1878-1908

The young Turk revolution

pt. 3. Making the city Greek

The return of Saint Dimitrios

The First World War

The great fire

The Muslim exodus

City of refugees

Workers and the state

Dressing for the tango

Greeks and Jews

Genocide

Aftermath

Conclusion: the memory of the dead.

Notes:

Originally published: London : HarperCollins, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-468) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version: Mazower, Mark. Salonica, city of ghosts.

ISBN:

9780307427571

0307427579

Publisher Number:

99984065559

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.