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

The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East : : The Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria / / Benjamin Thomas White.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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White, Benjamin Thomas,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2011
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 2 B/W illustrations 2 Maps
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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