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

Why, in the years around 1920, did the concept of 'minority' suddenly spring to prominence in public affairs worldwide? Within a decade of World War One, the term became fundamental to public and academic understandings of national and international politics, law, and society: 'minori...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: White, Benjamin Thomas (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2011]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Minorities > Syria > 20th century.
National characteristics, Syrian.
Ethnicity > Syria > 20th century.
Syrians.
Syriens.
Ethnicité > Syrie > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > State.
Ethnicity.
Minorities.
Minderheitenpolitik
Syria.
Frankreich
Syrien
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Minorities, majorities and the nation-state
  • 'Minorites' and the French mandate
  • Separatism and autonomism
  • The border and the Kurds
  • 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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