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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 949 EAN: 9780375727382 ISBN: 0375727388 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 544 Publication Date: 2006-05-09 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: 2006-05-09 Studio: Vintage
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Not sure where he got his information from Comment: The writer is living out quite a lot of important information. Book is biased and incorrect. Should check historical documents, especially New York Times archives about who exactly lived in Salonica in that time. It is correct that after the Balkan wars, a large Greek population moved in into this region, but what happened to the people that use to live there before the Balkan Wars? Customer Rating: Summary: A history of an epic city Comment: I lived in Thessaloniki as an exchange student in 1980. I wish that this book had bee available for me to realize the historic gems around every corner of my favorite city at that time. Mazower's book opens up the reasons for its (the city's) being and why it was and is so important. People of every religion, or none, will be fascinated by its political turmoil and intrigues, and visitors today can walk the same roads and shop in the same marketplaces as those who went before them, thousands of years ago. I have purchased this book several times and keep giving it away to other Thessalonians and people who love Thessaloniki as much as I. Customer Rating: Summary: And after reading you visit Comment: The book has a couple of slow passages, but overall Mazower offers a very lively account of Salonica since Ottoman times. You're not just reading about Salonica, but also the organization of the Ottoman empire, the history of the Sefardim Jews, diplomatic customs and modern Balkan history. Customer Rating: Summary: Salonica, city of ghosts Comment: Just started reading this book. It is still a good promise... Customer Rating: Summary: An excellent history of Salonica and Greece Comment: I enjoyed this book. It is informative not only about Thessaloníki but also the overall region, including the Balkans and Ottoman empire. The author concentrates on the Ottoman period, but the primary focus of the book is how the relationship and conflict between the three religions shaped this dynamic region over time. It was interesting to read how these three groups, that are now antagonistic, lived somewhat peaceably through most of the city's history. In addition, this book gave a fair representation of the agonizing effects from the forced migrations of much of the population and also the Holocaust. The style of the book is a little different than most histories in that it is not purely chronological. The author discusses a particular group over time, then within the same section, will "rewind" to cover another group that existed around the same period. In retrospect, I think this style makes sense as it allows a thorough analysis of each group; however, it would have been beneficial to have been warned in the introduction or forward that this style would be employed. Overall, I would highly recommend this book to anyone that wants to understand more about this city, Greece, and the Ottoman and Byzantine empires, as well as the history of these three religions.
Editorial Reviews: Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely prevailed until the twentieth century when the Greek army marched in, Muslims were forced out, and the Nazis deported and killed the Jews. As the acclaimed historian Mark Mazower follows the city’s inhabitants through plague, invasion, famine, and the disastrous twentieth century, he resurrects a fascinating and vanished world.