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A history of modern Lebanon, Fawwaz Traboulsi

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-287) and index

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A history of modern Lebanon

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Fawwaz Traboulsi

This is the first comprehensive history of Lebanon in the modern period. It is entirely unique as the last history of Lebanon was published more than forty years ago. Written by a leading Lebanese scholar and based on previously inaccessible archives, it is a fascinating and beautifully-written account of one of the world's most fabled countries. Starting with the formation of Ottoman Lebanon in the sixteenth century, Fawwaz Traboulsi covers the growth of Beirut as a capital for trade and culture through the nineteenth century. The main part of the book concentrates on Lebanon's development in the twentieth century and the conflicts that led up to the major wars in the 1970s and 1980s. Lebanon in the twentieth century has seen turbulent times, the results of which we still see today. - Publisher

pt. I. Ottoman Lebanon -- The Emirate of Mount Lebanon (1523-1842) -- The bloody death of the Muqata`ji System (1842-1861) -- Grandeur and misery of the Mutasarrifiya (1861-1915) -- Beirut, capital of trade and culture (1820-1918) -- pt. II. State and society -- Greater Lebanon : the dialectics of attachment and detachment (1915-1920) -- From mandate to independence (1920-1943) -- The merchant republic (1943-1952) -- The pro-Western authoritarianism of Kamil Sham`un (1952-1958) -- Shihabism and the difficult autonomy of the state (1958-1970) -- From social crisis to civil war (1968-1975) -- pt. III. The wars of Lebanon -- Reform by arms (1975-1976) -- The longest coup d'etat (1977-1982) -- The war order (1983-1990) -- Postscript : Ambiguities and contradictions of the Ta̓if Agreement