Acre: The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730-1831

by Thomas Philipp and Philipp Thomas

Book Overview

Thomas Philipp's study of Acre combines the most extensive use to date of local Arabic sources with commercial records in Europe to shed light on a region and power center many identify as the beginning of modern Palestinian history. The third largest city in eighteenth-century Syria--after Aleppo and Damascus--Acre was the capital of a politically and economically unique region on the Mediterranean coast that included what is today northern Israel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231123272
• ISBN13: 9780231123273
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher