Kais M. Firro

Inventing Lebanon (eBook, PDF)

Nationalism and the State Under the Mandate

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This study examines the history behind an idea: a new polity of "Greater Lebanon". It shows how, under the powerful influence of the French Mandate, various groups of the local elite attempted to create what amounted to a new Lebanese nationalism, carving the state into Maronite Christian, Sunni and Shiite power bases. The results only accentuated the divisions already inherent in this multi-ethnic and multi-faith society, and were to pave the way for the instability and wars that have plagued the country ever since.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857713629
• Artikelnr.: 39140868

Autorenporträt

Kais M. Firro is Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of Haifa. He is the author of A History of Druzes and The Druzes in the Jewish State.