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Syria's Democratic Years : Citizens, Experts, and Media in the 1950s /

The years 1954-1958 in Syria are popularly known as "The Democratic Years," a brief period of civilian government before the consolidation of authoritarian rule. Kevin W. Martin provides a cultural history of the period and argues that the authoritarian outcome was anything but inevitable....

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Autor principal: Martin, Kevin W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The virtuous citizen and the postcolonial state
  • Syria during the democratic years
  • The citizen and the law
  • Social justice and the patriarchal citizen
  • Punishing the enemies of Arabism
  • Making the martial citizen
  • The magic of modern pharmaceuticals
  • Sex and the conjugal citizen
  • Citizens on the tenth day.