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El galardonado historiador narra la caída de una ciudad antigua en una espiral de violencia sin precedentes, una masacre que en 1860 marcaría el fin del antiguo orden otomano y el comienzo del Oriente Medio moderno. El 9 de julio de 1860, la ciudad de Damasco fue testigo de uno de los...

This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle East: the ferocious outbreaks of disorder across the Levant in 1860 which resulted in the massacre of thousands of Christians in Damascus. Eugene Rogan brilliantly recreates the lost world of the Middle East under Ottoman rule. This is both an essential book for understanding the emergence of the modern Middle East from the destruction of the old Ottoman world, and a uniquely gripping story.