Benjamin Thomas White

The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East

The Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria

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Produktbeschreibung

Why, in the years around 1920, did the concept of 'minority' suddenly become prominent in public affairs worldwide? The author uses a study of Syria under the French mandate to show what historical developments led people to start describing themselves and others as 'minorities'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780748685400
• ISBN-10: 0748685405
• Artikelnr.: 36078251

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Thomas White is a Senior Lecturer of History at the University of Glasgow. He is author of The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East: The Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria (Edinburgh University Press). He has published the following chapters: "Animals, people and places in displacement." in: Adey, P., Bowstead, J., Brickell, K., Desai, V., Dolton, M., Pinkerton, A. and Siddiqi, A. (eds.) The Handbook of Displacement (Palgrave Macmillan) and "Protection or isolation? Humanitarian evacuees in Australian quarantine stations," in: Scott-Smith, T. and Breeze, M. E. (eds.) Structures of Protection: Rethinking Refugee Shelter (Berghahn Books). He has also been published in the Journal of Global History, Humanity, Fiction and Film for Scholars of France: A Cultural Bulletin, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, British Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle Eastern Studies and the International Journal of Middle East Studies.