Syria : society, culture, and polity / edited by Richard T. Antoun and Donald Quataert. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Antoun, Richard T.

Quataert, Donald, 1941-2011.

State University of New York at Binghamton. Program in Southwest Asian and North African Studies.

Series:

SUNY series in Middle Eastern studies

SUNY series in Middle Eastern studies Syria

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Syria--Congresses.

Syria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 165 p. ) ill., map ;

Place of Publication:

Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1991.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Ethnicity, clientship, and class : their changing meaning / Richard T. Antoun

Syrian political culture : a historical perspective / Philip S. Khoury

Class and state in Ba'thist Syria / Raymond A. Hinnebusch

The Alawis of Syria : religious ideology and organization / Fuad I. Khuri

Land reform and class structure in rural Syria / Sulayman N. Khalaf

The emancipation of women in contemporary Syrian literature / Salih J. Altoma

Asad : between institutions and autocracy / Patrick Seale

The nature of the Soviet-Syrian link under Asad and under Gorbachev / Helena Cobban.

Notes:

The product of a conference held in Apr. 1987 at the State University of New York--Binghamton, sponsored by the Southwest Asian and North African Studies Program.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-159) and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-9507-8

0-585-06353-2