The Rise and Fall of Greater Syria : : A Political History of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party / / Carl C. Yonker.

The Syrian Social Nationalist Party devoted itself to reviving and unifying the Syrian nation and establishing this nation’s complete independence over its historical homeland, Greater Syria. It continues its struggle today, influencing and shaping Lebanese and Syrian society and politics. Yet, the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences , 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 291 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Imagining Syria: Syrian Nationalism, Greater Syria, and the SSNP
  • The SSNP in Popular Discourse
  • Comparing Radical Rivals: The Communists, the Baʿth, and the Kataʾib
  • The SSNP in Academic Discourse
  • Organization of the Book
  • Part One: A New Generation
  • 1 Nationalist Formation: Antun Saʿadeh in the South American Mahjar
  • 2 Establishing a Nationalist Movement
  • 3 Freedom Proves Fleeting
  • Part Two: The War Years
  • 4 Those Who Have Departed and Those Who Have Remained
  • 5 Tightening the Noose: Life Under Vichy
  • 6 The Early Days of Independence
  • Part Three: The Road to a Failed Revolution and Its Aftermath
  • 7 Erasing the Mandate
  • 8 Return to the Field of Struggle
  • 9 An Inglorious Revolution
  • Part Four: Advance and Retreat
  • 10 Out of the Shadows: Contesting Elections in Syria and Lebanon
  • 11 The Malki Affair: The Uprooting of the SSNP in Syria
  • 12 The Struggle for Lebanon
  • 13 Epilogue: The Rise of Factionalism
  • Bibliography
  • Index