رقم التسجيلة
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692
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نوع المادة
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book
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ردمك
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0863565395
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رقم الطلب
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DS85.K36
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المؤلف
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Kanaan, Claude Boueiz
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العنوان
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Lebanon ( 1860 - 1960 ) : A Century of Myth and Politics . / Claude Boueiz Kanaan
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بيان الطبعة
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1st ed
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بيانات النشر
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London: Saqi Books, 2005.
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الوصف المادي
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320 p ; ill, 2 maps, b&w, hbk
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ملاحظات
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Includes some black-and-white illustrations, 2 maps and some tables
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المحتويات / النص
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1- Maps, Illustrations and Tables 9
2- Acknowledgments 11
3- A Note on Transliteration and Abbreviations 14
4- Introduction 15
5- An Introduction to Co-habitation 19
6- What Is Consensus? 20
7- The Role of Memory 22
8- The Role of Myth 23
9- The Roots of the Crisis 23
10- Social Structure: Community and Class 24
11- The Role of History 29
12- Sources of Information 34
13- Chapter Outline 41
1. Community Relations in Lebanese History:
The Long-term Internal Perspective 50
The Imarah 57
The Mutassarifiyyah 75
The Early 1900s 81
2. External Perspectives in the Historical Setting 95
French and Maronite Policies Converge 107
Sunni Hostility towards Maronite 'Myths' 109
3. The Creation of Independent Lebanon, 1920-43 121
A Constitution 130
4. The Crisis Develops, 1943-58 151
The Pact Collapses: Three Reasons Why 153
The Eisenhower Doctrine 163
Reconnecting to Foreign Powers 174
Changes in Thinking 180
5. The Sunni Community in 1958 199
Egypt's Intervention 215
6. The Maronite Community in 1958 244
The Political Parties 248
Chamoun's Rhetoric 252
The Patriarch Flexes His Muscles 264
Reasons for the Crisis 271
Conclusion 293
Bibliography 303
Index 316
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المستخلص
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Insightful and extensively researched, Lebanon in the 1950s explores the differing mythologies of the Maronite, Druze and Sunni communities that led to a brief but brutal clash in Lebanon in 1958. This polemical and thought-provoking work offers a fresh perspective on a period in Lebanese history often seen as the product of international friction between pan-Arab nationalism and the growing threat to Western hegemony during the Cold War. Kanaan argues that it was the centuries-old cultural, political and religious tensions in the region that led to civil conflict. Each community constructed a 'history' of Lebanon to justify their own ends, and in so doing helped to precipitate a national crisis. Lebanon in the 1950s is a fascinating overview of the interpretations surrounding the 'historical' evolution of the various communities that helped shaped Lebanon's vulnerable and volatile infrastructure, and what the US Department of Defence referred to as 'like war but not war' - a clash that was to have repercussions throughout the region for decades to follow.
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المواضيع
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Lebanon - History - Civil War, 1975 -1990Lebanon - History - Intervention, 1958Lebanon - Ethnic relations
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