Inventing Lebanon
Nationalism and the State Under the Mandate| By: | Kais M. Firro |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury UK |
| Print ISBN: | 9781860648571 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780857713629 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2002 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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This study examines the history behind an idea: a new polity of "Greater Lebanon". It shows how, under the powerful influence of the French Mandate, various groups of the local elite attempted to create what amounted to a new Lebanese nationalism, carving the state into Maronite Christian, Sunni and Shiite power bases. The results only accentuated the divisions already inherent in this multi-ethnic and multi-faith society, and were to pave the way for the instability and wars that have plagued the country ever since.