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Syria's democratic years : citizens, experts, and media in the 1950s / Kevin W. Martin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martin, Kevin W., author.
- Series:
- Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.
- Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil society--Syria.
- Civil society.
- Syria--Politics and government--1946-1971.
- Syria.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (234 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : Indiana University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study of mid-20th century Syria blends "cultural theory and comparative history" to offer "intellectual depth and relevance beyond the case at hand" ( The Middle East Journal ). When Syria became fully independent in 1946, the young republic faced the task of forging a new national identity. From 1954 to 1958, Syria enjoyed a brief period of civilian government-popularly known as "The Democratic Years"-before the consolidation of authoritarian rule. In Syria's Democratic Years, Kevin W. Martin provides a cultural history of the period and argues that the authoritarian outcome was anything but inevitable. Examining the flourishing broadcast and print media of the time, Martin focuses on three public figures, whose professions-law, the military, and medicine-projected modernity and modeled the new Arab citizen. This experiment with democracy, however abortive, offers a model of governance from Syria's historical experience that could serve as an alternative to dictatorship.
- Contents:
- The virtuous citizen and the postcolonial state
- Syria during the democratic years
- The citizen and the law
- Social justice and the patriarchal citizen
- Punishing the enemies of Arabism
- Making the martial citizen
- The magic of modern pharmaceuticals
- Sex and the conjugal citizen
- Citizens on the tenth day.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780253018939
- 0253018935
- OCLC:
- 928626479
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