by Eugene Rogan · Editorial Crítica · tapa dura · ISBN 9788491997474
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Award-winning historian Eugene Rogan chronicles the fall of an ancient city into an unprecedented spiral of violence, a massacre in 1860 that marked the end of the old Ottoman order and the beginning of the modern Middle East. On July 9, 1860, Damascus witnessed one of the most violent episodes in its history, as an enraged mob devastated Christian neighborhoods, leaving five thousand dead and a trail of destruction.
Rogan recreates the lost world of the Middle East under Ottoman rule, subjected to the pressures of global economic change and European expansion. This book offers a detailed and harrowing perspective on the events leading to the 1860 massacre and how a multicultural, peaceful city became the stage for an unimaginable tragedy, while also examining the resilience and reconstruction that allowed peace to be preserved for the next 150 years.
Eugene Lawrence Rogan, is an American historian of the Middle East and North Africa from the late Ottoman era to the present. He is currently Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford.
