" - Jan Morris, "The Guardian" " Mark Mazower's new book is a necessary masterpiece necessary because it fills a gap, and a masterpiece because it fills that gap so well. Brings alive a lost world, one with much to teach contemporary Europe about the nature of identity and nationality." - "The Nation " " tremendous book about a city unique not just in Europe, but in the entire history of humanity.What does to perfection is to express the historical meaning of Salonica down the generations, authenticating his story with a multitude of contemporary quotations, from the 15th to the 20th century, and scrupulously explaining it all out of his profound scholarly knowledge. A book to bring one to tears." - "The Boston Globe" " A history of a fascinating, turbulent city by one of the most distinguished historians of his generationE Mazower has provided a brilliant guide to Salonica's rich past." - "The New York Review of Books" " Timely, magnificent and sometimes unbearably poignant. A masterly synthesis of cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and social history. a thriving port and a crossroads between Europe and Asia." - "The New York Times" " An exhaustive, affectionate biography of the city, a deeply researched account that becomes a portrait of the singular, vanished cosmopolitanism of the Ottoman Empire." - "The Baltimore Sun "" A masterpiece. Mazower reconstructs a society of dazzling ethnic complexity and exoticism.
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