William Harris

Lebanon

A History, 600 - 2011. Sprachen: Englisch. 23,4 cm / 15,6 cm / 2,4 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9780190217839
60,20 €
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400 Seiten
Dezember 2014
Oxford University Press

The book explores the affairs of Mount Lebanon and its surrounds through fourteen centuries, beginning with the emergence of its Christian, Muslim and Islamic-derived communities between the sixth and eleventh centuries. Against this backdrop, it interprets the modern republic of Lebanon from Ottoman antecedents to present day crises.

William Harris is Professor of Politics at the University of Otago. He has taught at Princeton University, Haigazian University College in Beirut, Middle East Technical University in Ankara, and the University of Exeter. He is the author of The Levant: A Fractured Mosaic and Faces of Lebanon: Sects, Wars, and Global Extensions.

- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Transliteration
- Glossary
- Timeline for Lebanon and its Communities
- Introduction
- Part One Foundations
- 1. Emerging Communities, 600-1291
- 2. Druze Ascent, 1291-1633
- 3. Mountain Lords, 1633-1842
- Part Two Modern Lebanon
- 4. Emerging Lebanon, 1842-1942
- 5. Independent Lebanon, 1943-1975
- 6. Broken Lebanon, 1975-2011
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index