The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East : : The Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria / / Benjamin Thomas White.
Why, in the years around 1920, did the concept of 'minority' suddenly spring to prominence in public affairs worldwide? Within a decade of World War One, the term became fundamental to public and academic understandings of national and international politics, law, and society: 'minori...
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White, Benjamin Thomas, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East : The Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria / Benjamin Thomas White. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2011 1 online resource (256 p.) : 2 B/W illustrations 2 Maps text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- 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 -- PART I -- Chapter 1 Minorities, Majorities and the Nation-state -- Chapter 2 ‘Minorities’ and the French Mandate -- PART II -- Chapter 3 Separatism and Autonomism -- Chapter 4 The Border and the Kurds -- PART III -- Chapter 5 The Franco-Syrian Treaty and the Definition of ‘Minorities’ -- Chapter 6 Personal Status Law Reform -- Conclusion Minorities, Majorities and the Writing of History -- Select Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Why, in the years around 1920, did the concept of 'minority' suddenly spring to prominence in public affairs worldwide? Within a decade of World War One, the term became fundamental to public and academic understandings of national and international politics, law, and society: 'minorities', and 'majorities' with them, were taken to be an objective reality, both in the present and the past.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'. Despite French attempts to create territorial, political, and legal divisions, the mandate period saw the consolidation of the nation-state form in Syria: a trend towards a coherent national territory with fixed borders, uniform state authority within them, and the struggle to control that state played out in the language of nationalism - developments in the post-Ottoman Levant that closely paralleled those in contemporary Europe, after the demise of the Austro-Hungarian and tsarist empires. Through close attention to what changed in French mandate Syria, and what those changes meant, the book argues for a careful rethinking of a term too often used as an objective description of reality. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Ethnicity Syria 20th century. Ethnicity; Syria, 20th century. Minorities Syria 20th century. Minorities; Syria, 20th century. National characteristics, Syrian. Islamic Studies. HISTORY / Middle East / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 9783110780468 print 9780748641871 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748647552?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748647552 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748647552/original |
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White, Benjamin Thomas, White, Benjamin Thomas, The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East : The Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria / Frontmatter -- 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 -- PART I -- Chapter 1 Minorities, Majorities and the Nation-state -- Chapter 2 ‘Minorities’ and the French Mandate -- PART II -- Chapter 3 Separatism and Autonomism -- Chapter 4 The Border and the Kurds -- PART III -- Chapter 5 The Franco-Syrian Treaty and the Definition of ‘Minorities’ -- Chapter 6 Personal Status Law Reform -- Conclusion Minorities, Majorities and the Writing of History -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- 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 -- PART I -- Chapter 1 Minorities, Majorities and the Nation-state -- Chapter 2 ‘Minorities’ and the French Mandate -- PART II -- Chapter 3 Separatism and Autonomism -- Chapter 4 The Border and the Kurds -- PART III -- Chapter 5 The Franco-Syrian Treaty and the Definition of ‘Minorities’ -- Chapter 6 Personal Status Law Reform -- Conclusion Minorities, Majorities and the Writing of History -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- 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 -- PART I -- Chapter 1 Minorities, Majorities and the Nation-state -- Chapter 2 ‘Minorities’ and the French Mandate -- PART II -- Chapter 3 Separatism and Autonomism -- Chapter 4 The Border and the Kurds -- PART III -- Chapter 5 The Franco-Syrian Treaty and the Definition of ‘Minorities’ -- Chapter 6 Personal Status Law Reform -- Conclusion Minorities, Majorities and the Writing of History -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
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