Lebanon
Subtitle: The Challenge of Independence
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: May 12, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781860645372
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Colonization & independence; 20th century; Middle East - History - 20th Century; History; History - General History; History: World; Lebanon; Political History; Government - Comparative; Middle East - General; Political Science / General; General
First sentence: On 1 September 1920, General Henri Gouraud, the French high commissioner of the Levant, proclaimed the establishment of the state of Great Lebanon, from Nahr al-Kabir in the north to Ra's al-Naqura in the south, from the Mediterranean in the west to the Anti-Lebanon in the east.