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Eugene Rogan on communal violence and the end of the old Ottoman world

Eugene Rogan on communal violence and the end of the old Ottoman world

Update: 2024-08-131
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Eugene Rogan on "The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World" (Allen Lane). The book examines how in July 1860 Damascus exploded in communal violence when a mostly Muslim crowd tried to exterminate the Christian community, after hundreds of years of relative peace and coexistence.


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Eugene Rogan on communal violence and the end of the old Ottoman world

Eugene Rogan on communal violence and the end of the old Ottoman world

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