Free Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower

Acclaim for Mark Mazower’s
    Salonica, City of Ghosts
    Winner of
The John Criticos Prize
The Runciman Award
The Duff Cooper Prize
“In a remarkable display of historical craftsmanship, he resurrects the city’s manifold ghosts.… Mazower’s scrupulous witness to the experiences of each major group that made up the fabric of Salonica is an act of compassion for their suffering, a recognition of their gifts and aspirations, an acknowledgment of their common humanity.”
—Los Angeles Times
“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.”
—The Times (London)
“An extraordinary book by a historian with a wonderful appetite for complexity.”
—Newsday
“Enthralling.… Tragic, hopeful and beautifully written, Salonica, City of Ghosts shows how cities, as much as people, can be seduced by the prospect of escaping their own past and remaking themselves in ways unrecognizable to old friends.”
—The Times Literary Supplement (London)
“Mazower … is a champion of the cosmopolitan. He tells his history with sweep but doesn’t neglect the human side.”
—The Miami Herald
“[A] tremendous book about a city unique not just in Europe, but in the entire history of humanity.… What [Mazower] 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 fifteenth to the twentieth century, and scrupulously explaining it all out of his profound scholarly knowledge.”
—The Guardian (London)
“Mazower has made a major contribution.… A book worth reading by anybody interested in the coexistence of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity—and interested in a single small but glorious place.”
—The Weekly Standard
“A brilliant reconstruction of one of Europe’s great meeting places between the three monotheistic faiths.”
—The Economist
“[Mazower] sensitively analyses the internal debates and divisions which could be found within all the major communities.”
—The Sunday Telegraph (London)
“Masterly.… A brilliant and timely reminder that cities have played as important a role as states in the lives of their inhabitants.”
—The Spectator (London)
“Mazower has succeeded so well that scholars of all nationalities and religions will refer to this book as their principal source on the city.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Mazower is a formidable historian. He has produced a majestic work: the biography of a city, complete with soul and ichor.”
—The Independent (London)
“This exploration into the soul of a Balkan city is both evocative and profound, a masterful addition to Mazower’s work.”
—BBC History Magazine
“ Salonica, City of Ghosts , is a wonderful evocation of the complex, glorious and tragic history of a city, with lessons both positive and negative for our present age. The author, as always, writes with compelling clarity and penetrating eye for detail. If the past is another country, the author allows us to travel there.”
—“Books of the Year,” The Sunday Telegraph (London)

MARK MAZOWER
    Salonica, City of Ghosts
    Mark Mazower is professor of history at Columbia University and Birkbeck College, London. His books include Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century and Inside Hitler’s Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941–44 , winner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History and the Longman/History Today Award for Book of the Year. He lives in New York City.

 
    ALSO BY MARK MAZOWER
    The Balkans: A Short History
    Inside Hitler’s Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941–1944
    Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century

FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, MAY 2006
    Copyright © 2004 by Mark Mazower
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