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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461740303321

Autore

White Benjamin Thomas

Titolo

The emergence of minorities in the Middle East : the politics of community in French mandate Syria / / Benjamin Thomas White [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2011

ISBN

0-7486-5328-7

1-283-25280-5

9786613252807

0-7486-4755-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

956.91041

Soggetti

Minorities - Syria - 20th century

National characteristics, Syrian

Ethnicity - Syria - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 -- pt. I. Minorities, majorities and the nation-state -- 'Minorities' and the French Mandate -- pt. II. Separatism and autonomism -- The border and the Kurds -- pt. III. The Franco-Syrian Treaty and the definition of 'minorities' -- Personal status law reform -- Conclusion : minorities, majorities and the writing of history.

Sommario/riassunto

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'.