Ross Burns

Damascus (eBook, PDF)

A History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351055215
• Artikelnr.: 57890282

Autorenporträt

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