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Acre : the rise and fall of a Palestinian city, 1730-1831 /
Thomas Philipp's study of Acre combines the most extensive use to date of local Arabic sources with commercial records in Europe to shed light on a region and power center many identify as the beginning of modern Palestinian history. The third largest city in eighteenth-century Syria?after Alep...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2001.
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| Colección: | History and society of the modern Middle East series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Thomas Philipp's study of Acre combines the most extensive use to date of local Arabic sources with commercial records in Europe to shed light on a region and power center many identify as the beginning of modern Palestinian history. The third largest city in eighteenth-century Syria?after Aleppo and Damascus?Acre was the capital of a politically and economically unique region on the Mediterranean coast that included what is today northern Israel and southern Lebanon. In the eighteenth century, Acre grew dramatically from a small fishing village to a fortified city of some 25,000 inhabita. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (299 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-282) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0231506031 9780231506038 0231123264 9780231123266 0231123272 9780231123273 |