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Book SynopsisA stunning history of Lebanon over five centuries
Trade Review'Puts Lebanon's long war into a context that makes it comprehensible and, perhaps, inevitable. Everyone who is curious about that beautiful and tormented country should read his history, one of the best yet'
-- Charles Glass, author of The Northern Front and The Tribes Triumphant
'Skillfully weaving together social, political, cultural and economic history, this deeply informed and penetrating study provides a rich understanding of the vibrant, tragic, but ever hopeful Lebanese 'door to East and West''
-- Noam Chomsky
'This is a unique work. Fawwaz Traboulsi provides a compelling account of Lebanon's emergence as a state, a critical appraisal of its autonomy, a pathbreaking analysis of its social origins in the intimate and ever changing relationship of caste and class'
-- Irene Gendzier, Professor of History, Boston University
'Traboulsi writes what has eluded us for a long time, a history of modern lebanon that includes the civil war and post civil war periods'
-- Maya Mikdashi, Jadaliyya
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Glossary
Section One: Ottoman Lebanon
1. The Emirate of Mount Lebanon (1523--1842)
2. The Bloody Death of the Muqata`ji System (1842--1861)
3. Grandeur and Misery of the Mutasarrifiya (1861--1915)
4. Beirut, Capital of Trade and Culture (1820--1918)
Section Two: State and Society
5. Dialectics of Attachment and Detachment (1915--1920)
6. From Mandate to Independence (1920--1943)
7. The Merchant Republic (1943--1952)
8. The Pro-Western Authoritarianism of Kamil Chamoun (1952--1958)
9. Shihabism and the Difficult Autonomy of the State (1958--1970)
10. The Pre-War Crises (1968--1975)
Section Three: the Wars of Lebanon
11. Reform by Arms (1975--1976)
12. The Longest Coup d’Etat (1977--1982)
13. The War Order (1983--1990)
14. Ambiguities and Contradictions of the Taif Agreement
Bibliography
Notes
Index
