The origins of the Lebanese national idea, 1840-1920
In this fascinating study, Carol Hakim presents a new and original narrative on the origins of the Lebanese national idea. Hakim's study reconsiders conventional accounts that locate the origins of Lebanese nationalism in a distant legendary past and then trace its evolution in a linear and gradual manner. She argues that while some of the ideas and historical myths at the core of Lebanese nationalism appeared by the mid-nineteenth century, a coherent popular nationalist ideology and movement emerged only with the establishment of the Lebanese state in 1920. Hakim reconstructs the complex proc
History
1 online resource (377 pages)
9781283860338, 9780520954717, 1283860333, 0520954718
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; 1 The Emergence of Lebanism: The Lebanese Setting; 2 The Emergence of Lebanism: The French Connection; 3 The 1860 Massacres and Their Aftermath: A Map for Lebanon; 4 The Church and the Mutasarrifiyya; 5 The Mutasarrifiyya Framework: An Equivocal Legacy; 6 The Secular Elite and the Mutasarrifiyya; 7 The 1908 Revolution and Its Aftermath; 8 Toward a Greater Lebanon; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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