Baghdad : city of peace, city of blood
Marozzi, Justin, 1970-2014
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Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great hardships, beset by epidemics, famines, floods, and numerous foreign invasions which have brought terrible bloodshed. This book tells the history of its storytellers and its tyrants, of its philosophers and conquerors.
Main title:
Baghdad : city of peace, city of blood / Justin Marozzi.
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Imprint:
London : Allen Lane, 2014.
Collation:
xlviii, 458 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781846143137 (hbk)
Dewey class:
956.747
Language:
English
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BRN:
1801541