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The emergence of minorities in the Middle East : the politics of community in French mandate Syria / Benjamin Thomas White.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Benjamin Thomas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minorities--Syria--History--20th century.
- Minorities.
- Nation-building--Syria--History--20th century.
- Nation-building.
- Syria--History--French occupation, 1918-1946.
- Syria.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book uses a study of Syria under the French mandate to show what historical developments led people to start describing themselves and others as 'minorities'.
- Contents:
- Map 1. Syria c.1936
- Map 2. The far Northeast of Syria in the 1930s
- Outline chronology of the French Mandate, 1919-39
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- pt. I. Minorities, majorities and the nation-state
- 'Minorities' and the French Mandate
- pt. II. Separatism and autonomism
- The border and the Kurds
- pt. III. The Franco-Syrian Treaty and the definition of 'minorities'
- Personal status law reform
- Conclusion : minorities, majorities and the writing of history.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-5328-7
- 1-283-25280-5
- 9786613252807
- 0-7486-4755-4
- OCLC:
- 749264676
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