Ebook: Levant: splendour and catatrophe on the Meditteranean

The vineyards of Pera -- Smyrna : the eye of Asia -- Smyrna : massacres and merriment -- Alexandria : the key to Egypt -- Alexandria : bid for empire -- Beirut : the republic of merchants -- Alexandria : khedives and consuls -- Alexandria : the British years -- Beirut : the jewel in the crown of the padishah -- Smyrna : Greeks and Turks -- Drifting cities -- Catastrophe and liberation -- Alexandria : queen of the Mediterranean -- Egyptianization -- Beirut : birth of a capital -- The Paris of the Middle East -- The dance of death -- New Levants for old.