The emergence of minorities in the Middle East : the politics of community in French mandate Syria /

This text uses a study of Syria under the French mandate to show what historical developments led people to start describing themselves and others as 'minorities'. Shows which historical developments led people to start describing themselves and others as 'minorities'Through clos...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: White, Benjamin Thomas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2011.
Temas:
1900-1999
National characteristics, Syrian.
Ethnicity > Syria > 20th century.
Minorities > Syria > History > 20th century.
Nation-building > Syria > History > 20th century.
Syrians.
Syriens.
Ethnicité > Syrie > 20e siècle.
Reconstruction d'une nation > Syrie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
History > Middle East > General.
Syrians
Ethnicity
Minorities
Nation-building
National characteristics, Syrian
Minderheitenpolitik
Syria > History > French occupation, 1918-1946.
Syrie > Histoire > 1918-1946 (Occupation française)
Syria
Frankreich
Syrien
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Map 1. Syria c.1936
  • Map 2. The far Northeast of Syria in the 1930s
  • Outline chronology of the French Mandate, 1919-39
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • pt. I. Minorities, majorities and the nation-state
  • 'Minorities' and the French Mandate
  • pt. II. Separatism and autonomism
  • The border and the Kurds
  • pt. III. The Franco-Syrian Treaty and the definition of 'minorities'
  • Personal status law reform
  • Conclusion : minorities, majorities and the writing of history.

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