The Culture of Sectarianism
Subtitle: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: July 3, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780520218468
Subjects: Anthropology; Area / regional studies; Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Holy war; c 1800 to c 1900; Middle East - General; History - General History; History: World; Lebanon; Ottoman Empire; Modern - 19th Century; History / General; History; 19th century; Elite (Social sciences); Politics and government; Religion and politics
First sentence: In the hills of Mount Lebanon, a few miles from the scene of this massacre, a Christian man, Salim Shawish, wondered if a similar fate awaited him and his family.