Damascus, first published in 2005, was the first account in English of the history of the city. This new edition has been thoroughly updated using recent scholarship and includes an additional chapter placing the events of the Syrian post-2011 conflict in the context of the city's tumultuousexperiences over the last century.
Damascus, first published in 2005, was the first account in English of the history of the city. This new edition has been thoroughly updated using recent scholarship and includes an additional chapter placing the events of the Syrian post-2011 conflict in the context of the city's tumultuousexperiences over the last century.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Ross Burns was in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs for 37 years until his retirement in 2003, including as Ambassador to Syria from 1984 to 1987. After his retirement, he completed a PhD at Macquarie University in Sydney on 'The Origins of the Colonnaded Streets in the Cities of the Roman East'. He is the author of Aleppo (2016) and Monuments of Syria (3rd edition, 2009).
Inhaltsangabe
List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Foreword; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; PART ONE; Chapter 1 The Emergence of Damascus (9000 c1100 BC); Chapter 2 Dimashqu Damascus from the Aramaeans to the Assyrians (c1100 732 BC); Chapter 3 A Greater Game Assyrians, Persians, Greeks (732 c300 BC); Chapter 4 The Sowing of Hellenism Ptolemies and Seleucids (300 64 BC); Chapter 5 Towards a Pax Romana (64 BC AD 30); Chapter 6 Metropolis Romana (AD 30 268); Chapter 7 Holding the Line (AD 269 610); Chapter 8 'Farewell, Oh Syria' (611 661); Chapter 9 The Umayyads (661 750); PART TWO; Preface to Part Two When did the ancient end?; Chapter 10 Decline, Confusion and Irrelevance (750 1008); Chapter 11 Islam Resurgent (1098 1174); Chapter 12 Saladin and the Ayyubids (1174 1250); Chapter 13 Mamluks (1250 1515); Chapter 14 The First Ottoman Centuries (1516 1840); Chapter 15 Reform and Reaction (1840 1918); Chapter 16 Epilogue Countdown to Catastrophe (1919 2011); Glossary of Terms and Names; Maps of City and Environs; Bibliography; Index
List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Foreword; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; PART ONE; Chapter 1 The Emergence of Damascus (9000 c1100 BC); Chapter 2 Dimashqu Damascus from the Aramaeans to the Assyrians (c1100 732 BC); Chapter 3 A Greater Game Assyrians, Persians, Greeks (732 c300 BC); Chapter 4 The Sowing of Hellenism Ptolemies and Seleucids (300 64 BC); Chapter 5 Towards a Pax Romana (64 BC AD 30); Chapter 6 Metropolis Romana (AD 30 268); Chapter 7 Holding the Line (AD 269 610); Chapter 8 'Farewell, Oh Syria' (611 661); Chapter 9 The Umayyads (661 750); PART TWO; Preface to Part Two When did the ancient end?; Chapter 10 Decline, Confusion and Irrelevance (750 1008); Chapter 11 Islam Resurgent (1098 1174); Chapter 12 Saladin and the Ayyubids (1174 1250); Chapter 13 Mamluks (1250 1515); Chapter 14 The First Ottoman Centuries (1516 1840); Chapter 15 Reform and Reaction (1840 1918); Chapter 16 Epilogue Countdown to Catastrophe (1919 2011); Glossary of Terms and Names; Maps of City and Environs; Bibliography; Index
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