كتاب
Sicily: a short history, from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra
| العنوان: | Sicily: a short history, from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra Short history from the ancient Greeks to Cosa Nostra |
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| المؤلفون: | Norwich, John Julius, 1929- author. |
| بيانات النشر: | London : John Murray, 2015. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| وصف مادي: | xiii, 366 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | History., Military history. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | Sicily (Italy) -- History., Sicily (Italy) -- Civilization., Sicily (Italy) -- Kings and rulers -- History., Sicily (Italy) -- History, Military. |
| الوصف: | "“Sicily,” said Goethe, “is the key to everything.” It is the largest island in the Mediterranean, the stepping-stone between Europe and Africa, the link between the Latin West and the Greek East. Sicily’s strategic location has tempted Roman emperors, French princes, and Spanish kings. The subsequent struggles to conquer and keep it have played crucial roles in the rise and fall of the world’s most powerful dynasties. Yet Sicily has often been little more than a footnote in books about other empires. John Julius Norwich’s engrossing narrative is the first to knit together all of the colorful strands of Sicilian history into a single comprehensive study. Here is a vivid, erudite, page-turning chronicle of an island and the remarkable kings, queens, and tyrants who fought to rule it. From its beginnings as a Greek city-state to its emergence as a multicultural trading hub during the Crusades, from the rebellion against Italian unification to the rise of the Mafia, the story of Sicily is rich with extraordinary moments and dramatic characters. Writing with his customary deftness and humor, Norwich outlines the surprising influence Sicily has had on world history—the Romans’ fascination with Greek civilization dates back to their sack of Sicily—and tells the story of one of the world’s most kaleidoscopic cultures in a galvanizing, contemporary way."-- |
| Original Identifier: | ocn907941073 ocn908326845 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-1-84854-895-4 1-84854-895-8 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | First U.S. edition published under the title: Sicily : an island at the crossroads of history. New York : Random House, [2015]. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014375237.5 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9781848548954 1848548958 |
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