Baghdad: city of peace, city of blood--a history in thirteen centuries
Marozzi, Justin
Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great hardships, beset by epidemics, famines, floods, and numerous foreign invasions which have brought terrible bloodshed. This is the history of its storytellers and its tyrants, of its philosophers and conquerors.
Here, in the first new history of Baghdad in nearly 80 years, Justin Marozzi brings to life the whole tumultuous history of what was once the greatest capital on earth.
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Année:
2014
Edition:
First Da Capo Press edition
Editeur::
Da Capo Press
Langue:
english
ISBN 10:
0306823993
ISBN 13:
9780306823992
Fichier:
EPUB, 9.08 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2014
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