Divided Loyalties
Subtitle: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 16, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780520210707
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Ethnic studies; Nationalism; Mandates; History; History - General History; History: World; Syria; Middle East - General; Government - International; History / General; 20th century; Elite (Social sciences)
First sentence: As discussed in the Introduction, the economic and administrative transformation of the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century, although uneven in both distribution and effect, induced a correlated shift in social and political relations for a substantial number of inhabitants of the empire.