The Damascus Events: the 1860 massacre and the destruction of the old Ottoman world
"On July 9, 1860, a violent mob swept through the Christian quarters of Damascus. For eight days, violence raged, leaving five thousand Christians dead, thousands of shops looted, and churches, houses, and monasteries razed. The sudden and ferocious outbreak shocked the world, leaving Syrian Ch...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Allen Lane
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ottoman Empire
/ Civil war in Lebanon (1860)
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Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
B Genocide & ethnic cleansing B HIS055000 B HIS026040 B Middle Eastern history B Damascus B c 1800 to c 1900 B 19th Century / HISTORY / Modern B Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens B Genozide und ethnische Säuberung B Syria B ca. 1860 bis ca. 1869 |
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| Summary: | "On July 9, 1860, a violent mob swept through the Christian quarters of Damascus. For eight days, violence raged, leaving five thousand Christians dead, thousands of shops looted, and churches, houses, and monasteries razed. The sudden and ferocious outbreak shocked the world, leaving Syrian Christians vulnerable and fearing renewed violence. Drawn from never-before-seen eyewitness accounts of the Damascus Events, eminent Middle East historian Eugene Rogan tells the story of how a peaceful multicultural city came to be engulfed in slaughter. He traces how rising tensions between Muslim and Christian communities led some to regard extermination as a reasonable solution. Rogan also narrates the wake of this disaster, and how the Ottoman government moved quickly to retake control of the city, end the violence, and reintegrate Christians into the community. These efforts to rebuild Damascus proved successful, preserving peace for the next 150 years until 2011. The Damascus Events offers a vivid history, one that masterfully uncovers the outbreak of violence that unmade a great city and examines the possibility, even after searing conflict and unimaginable tragedy, of repair"-- A superb account of the 1860 Damascus massacres-much neglected nowadays but central to the creation of the modern Middle East Simon Sebag Montefiore A stunning portrait of the Ottoman Empire and of Damascus during a time of crisis. Absolutely riveting Peter FrankopanThis 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. The once mighty empire was under pressure from global economic change and European imperial expansion. Reforms in the mid-nineteenth century raised tensions across the empire, nowhere more so than in Damascus. A multifarious city linked by caravan trade to Baghdad, the Mediterranean and Mecca, the chaos of languages, customs and beliefs made Damascus a warily tolerant place. Until the reforms began to advantage the minority Christian community at the expense of the Muslim majority.But in 1860 people who had generally lived side by side for generations became bitter enemies as news of civil war in Mount Lebanon arrived in the city. Under the threat of a French expeditionary force, the Ottomans dealt with the disaster effectively and ruthlessly - but the old, generally quite tolerant Damascene world lay in ruins. It would take a quarter of a century to restore stability and prosperity to the Syrian capital.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 |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 377 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Blätter, Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 0241646901 |