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A History of Modern Lebanon - Fawwaz Traboulsi

A History of Modern Lebanon

By: Fawwaz Traboulsi

Paperback | 14 June 2012 | Edition Number 2

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This is the first history of Lebanon from the Ottoman Empire to the modern period. Based on previously inaccessible archives, it is a fascinating account of one of the world's most fabled countries.

Starting with the formation of Ottoman Lebanon in the 16th century, Traboulsi covers the growth of Beirut as a capital for trade and culture through the 19th century, it's independence and experiences as a republic, before moving onward to Lebanon's development in the late 20th century and the conflicts that led up to the major wars in the 1970s and 1980s and beyond.

This is a stunning history of Lebanon over five centuries, bringing to life its politics, its people and the crucial role that it has always played in world affairs.

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'Puts Lebanon's long war into a context that makes it comprehensible and, perhaps, inevitable. Everyone who is curious about that beautiful and tormented country should read his history, one of the best yet'

-- Charles Glass, author of The Northern Front and The Tribes Triumphant

'Skillfully weaving together social, political, cultural and economic history, this deeply informed and penetrating study provides a rich understanding of the vibrant, tragic, but ever hopeful Lebanese 'door to East and West''

-- Noam Chomsky

'This is a unique work. Fawwaz Traboulsi provides a compelling account of Lebanon's emergence as a state, a critical appraisal of its autonomy, a pathbreaking analysis of its social origins in the intimate and ever changing relationship of caste and class'

-- Irene Gendzier, Professor of History, Boston University

'Traboulsi writes what has eluded us for a long time, a history of modern lebanon that includes the civil war and post civil war periods'

-- Maya Mikdashi, Jadaliyya

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