777887Baghdadhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/baghdad/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/327299/255a9527-29e4-4e0d-b8fd-53ee8622407f.jpg?v=638334261364830000226257MXNPenguin Books LtdInStock/Ebooks/In Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood, celebrated young travelwriter-historian Justin Marozzi gives us a many-layered history of one of the worlds truly great cities - both its spectacular golden ages and its terrible disastersJustin Marozzi is the most brilliant of the new generation of travelwriter-historians - Sunday TelegraphOver thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great hardships, beset by epidemics, famines, floods, and numerous foreign invasions which have brought terrible bloodshed. This is the history of its storytellers and its tyrants, of its philosophers and conquerors.Here, in the first new history of Baghdad in nearly 80 years, Justin Marozzi brings to life the whole tumultuous history of what was once the greatest capital on earth.Justin Marozzi is a Councillor of the Royal Geographic Society and a Senior Research Fellow at Buckingham University. He has broadcast for BBC Radio Four, and regularly contributes to a wide range of publications, including the Financial Times, for which he has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan and Darfur. His previous books include the bestselling Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, a Sunday Telegraph Book of the Year (2004), and The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus....775809Baghdad226257https://www.gandhi.com.mx/baghdad/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/327299/255a9527-29e4-4e0d-b8fd-53ee8622407f.jpg?v=638334261364830000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20149780141948041_W3siaWQiOiI1ZjEzMzRmYS01MjBjLTRlZTEtYmU5OC04Y2Y0ZmUwODYzNjIiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjI2MCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjMxLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIyOSwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDEtMTdUMDg6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780141948041_In Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood, celebrated young travelwriter-historian Justin Marozzi gives us a many-layered history of one of the worlds truly great cities - both its spectacular golden ages and its terrible disastersJustin Marozzi is the most brilliant of the new generation of travelwriter-historians - Sunday TelegraphOver thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great hardships, beset by epidemics, famines, floods, and numerous foreign invasions which have brought terrible bloodshed. This is the history of its storytellers and its tyrants, of its philosophers and conquerors.Here, in the first new history of Baghdad in nearly 80 years, Justin Marozzi brings to life the whole tumultuous history of what was once the greatest capital on earth.Justin Marozzi is a Councillor of the Royal Geographic Society and a Senior Research Fellow at Buckingham University. He has broadcast for BBC Radio Four, and regularly contributes to a wide range of publications, including the Financial Times, for which he has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan and Darfur. His previous books include the bestselling Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, a Sunday Telegraph Book of the Year (2004), and The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus....9780141948041_Penguin Books Ltdlibro_electonico_3658475c-f306-3214-be0b-f4ae004a4eea_9780141948041;9780141948041_9780141948041Justin MarozziInglésMéxico2014-05-29T00:00:00+00:00Penguin Books Ltd