Issa, Islam

Alexandria : the city that changed the world / City that changed the world Islam Issa. - First Pegasus Books cloth edition. - 476 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages [433]-459) and index.

An award-winning British-Egyptian writer presents an authoritative history of the first modern city and how it has shaped our modern world, including its role as a global capital of knowledge as well as the site of plagues and violence.

1639365451 9781639365456

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Alexandria (Egypt)--History


Instructional and educational works

DT154 .A4 / I87 2024

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