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Author Hakim, Carol, 1954- author.

Title The origins of the Lebanese national idea, 1840-1920 / Carol Hakim
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 364 pages)
Contents The Emergence of Lebanism : The Lebanese Setting -- The Emergence of Lebanism : The French Dimension -- The 1860 Massacres And Their Aftermath : A Map For Lebanon -- The Church And The Mutasarrifiyyah -- The Mutasarrifiyyah Framework : An Equivocal Legacy -- The Secular Elite And The Mutasarrifiyyah -- The 1908 Revolution And Its Aftermath -- Towards A Greater Lebanon
Summary In this fascinating study, Carol Hakim presents a new and original narrative on the origins of the Lebanese national idea. Hakim's study reconsiders conventional accounts that locate the origins of Lebanese nationalism in a distant legendary past and then trace its evolution in a linear and gradual manner. She argues that while some of the ideas and historical myths at the core of Lebanese nationalism appeared by the mid-nineteenth century, a coherent popular nationalist ideology and movement emerged only with the establishment of the Lebanese state in 1920. Hakim reconstructs the complex process that led to the appearance of fluid national ideals among members of the clerical and secular Lebanese elite, and follows the fluctuations and variations of these ideals up until the establishment of a Lebanese state. The book is an essential read for anyone interested in the evolution of nationalism in the Middle East and beyond
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Nationalism -- Lebanon -- History
Elite (Social sciences) -- Political activity -- Lebanon -- History
Political culture -- Lebanon -- History
Maronites -- Lebanon -- History.
Druzes -- Lebanon -- History.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Druzes
Elite (Social sciences) -- Political activity
Ethnic relations
Maronites
Nationalism
Political culture
Politics and government
SUBJECT Lebanon -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Lebanon -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Mount Lebanon (Lebanon : Province) -- Politics and government
Lebanon -- Ethnic relations -- History
Subject Lebanon
Lebanon -- Mount Lebanon (Province)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0520954718
9780520954717