Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia

by Jon Calame and Esther Charlesworth

Book Overview

In Jerusalem, Israeli and Jordanian militias patrolled a fortified, impassable Green Line from 1948 until 1967. In Nicosia, two walls and a buffer zone have segregated Turkish and Greek Cypriots since 1963. In Belfast, "peaceline" barricades have separated working-class Catholics and Protestants since 1969. In Beirut, civil war from 1974 until 1990 turned a cosmopolitan city into a lethal patchwork of ethnic enclaves. In Mostar, the Croatian and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00A2RMH4I
• ISBN13: 9780812221954
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"