Inventing Lebanon
Subtitle: Nationalism and the State Under the Mandate
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: December 6, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781860648571
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; History of ideas, intellectual history; Nationalism; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Lebanon; International Relations - General; Middle East - General; Political Science / International Relations; General
First sentence: In 1844, Maronite bishop Niqula Murad published a short treatise with the long title, Notice historique sur la Nation Maronite et sur ses rapports avec la France, sur la Nation Druze et sur les diverses populations du Mont Liban, in which he sets out how Maronite elites saw of the socio-economic and political future of Mount Lebanon.