The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East: The Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria - Softcover

White, Benjamin Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748685405 ISBN 13: 9780748685400

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

xiii 239p paperback, illustrated card cover, several maps, bibliography, index, a clean and bright copy, like new

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Críticas:

"A must-read, not only for scholars of the Middle East, but also for the general public interested in placing contemporary events in general, and regional sectarian politics in particular, into the wider historical context." -- Melanie S. Tanielian, English Historical Review

Reseña del editor:

This book shows which historical developments led people to start describing themselves and others as 'minorities'. Why, in the years around 1920, did the concept of 'minority' suddenly become prominent in public affairs worldwide? Within a decade of World War One, the term became fundamental to public understandings of national and international politics, law, and society. Minorities (and majorities too) were taken to be an objective reality, both in the present and the past. Benjamin White uses a study of Syria under the French mandate to show what historical developments led people to start describing themselves and others as 'minorities'. Through close attention to what changed in French-mandate Syria, and what those changes meant, White argues for a careful reappraisal of a term too often used as an objective description of reality.

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• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0748685405
• ISBN 13: 9780748685400
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256