Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Curse of Babel
2: Ottoman belle époque
3: People of God I
4: People of God II
5: Catastrophes
Epilogue
Bibliography

About the Author

Nicholas Doumanis teaches world history at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. His first book, Myth and Memory in the Mediterranean (1997) won the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. He has written extensively on the history of Mediterranean Europe, social memory, and migration.

Reviews

As a compelling reconstruction of a vanished time and place this book is sure to appeal to anyone interested in the history of intercommunal relations in the Ottoman Empire.
*George Vassiadis, History Today*

...a fluent and theoretically informed book that brings to life how Christian and Muslim lived together just before they entered the valley of death.
*Dimitris Livanios, English Historical Review*

eloquently, historiographically and critically ... [a] remarkable book.
*Meltem Toksöz, Mediterranean Historical Review*