A. J. Abraham

Lebanon in Modern Times

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This careful study of Lebanese politics and foreign policy reflects the problems we now face in the Middle East and offer's democratic suggestions to the Muslim and Third World.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9780761840718
• ISBN-10: 0761840710
• Artikelnr.: 23818886

Autorenporträt

A. J. Abraham is professor of Middle Eastern history at New York Institute of Technology and John Jay College (CUNY). A world-class scholar, Abraham has served as a consultant to several governments, as well as to international agencies and organizations. He is the author of numerous articles and books on the Near and Middle East and the Third World.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 1 The Lord of The Land: Amir Fakhr al-Din al-Mani II and The
Druze Revolt
Chapter 5 2 The Shihabi Amirate (Emirate) I: Neutrality in the Era of
Napoleon and Ahmed al-Jazzar Pasha
Chapter 6 3 The Shihabi Amirate (Emirate) II: Lebanon and the Egyptian
Invasion
Chapter 7 4 The Maronite Establishment: Independence and the Maronite
Church
Chapter 8 5 The Maronite Insurrection in Mount Lebanon (1841-1845): The
Struggle to Secure Independence
Chapter 9 6 The Maronite-Druze Civil War of 1860: A Decade of Conflicts the
Ottoman Empire Attempted to Reintegrate Lebanon Tightly into the Porte's
Embrace
Chapter 10 7 The Mutasarrifiyah of Jabal Lubnan: The Arab World's First
Representative Government
Chapter 11 8 Under French Rule: The Interwar Years and the Origins of
Political Modernization
Chapter 12 9 Independent Lebanon: Confessional Democracy and Political
Tensions
Chapter 13 10 The War Years (1975-1985)
Chapter 14 11 Post War Lebanon (1985-1996)
Chapter 15 12 The Contemporary Scene (1997-2007)
Chapter 16 Conclusion
Chapter 17 Epilogue
Chapter 18 Select Bibliography
Chapter 19 About the Author