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 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 inhabitants. Cash crops (first cotton, then grain) made A…
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- ISBN: 978-0-231-12327-3
- EAN: 9780231123273
- Produktnummer: 19594240
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B16.5 cm x D1.8 cm 440 g
- Abbildungen: 9 graphs, 8 maps
- Gewicht: 440
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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Thomas Philipp
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