Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City 9781782839040, 9781788169189, 1782839046

'Original and illuminating ... what a good book this is' Jonathan Dimbleby 'A love letter to the people o

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Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City
9781782839040, 9781788169189, 1782839046

Dumper explores how religious and political interests compete for control of the Old City of Jerusalem, and how this com

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An expansive history of Jerusalem as a cultural crossroads, and a fresh look at the urban development of one of the worl

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Yerusalem adalah kota universal, ibukota dua bangsa, dan tempat suci tiga agama. Kota warisan berbagai kekaisaran yang d

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A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put

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This is the third in a series of four volumes that are intended to present a complete Corpus of all the church buildings

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At the end of the Second World War nearly 50,000 women emigrated to Canada from Britain and the continent, scarred from

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The epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from King David to the 21st c

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The epic story of Jerusalem told through the lives of the men and women who created, ruled and inhabited it. Jerusalem i

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This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seduct

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As he traces the sources of the Danube, the noblest and most picturesque river of Europe (though not blue), so Mr. Sedgw

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