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Fragile Nation, Shattered Land: The Modern History of Syria
James A. Reilly
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Description for Fragile Nation, Shattered Land: The Modern History of Syria
Hardcover. The essential book for understanding modern Syria. Num Pages: 312 pages, 8 colour illustrations in an 8 page plate section. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 1FBS; 1QDT; HBJF1; HBTV; JFSR2; JPWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 155. .
The Syrian state is less than 100 years old, born from the wreckage of World War I. Today it stands in ruins, shattered by brutal civil war. How did this happen? How did the lands that are today Syria survive incorporation with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century and the trials and vicissitudes of the Sultan's rule for four centuries, only to collapse into civil war in recent years? Arguably it was the Ottoman period that laid the fragile foundations of a state that had to endure a turbulent twentieth century under French rule, tentative independence, a brutal and ... Read more
The Syrian state is less than 100 years old, born from the wreckage of World War I. Today it stands in ruins, shattered by brutal civil war. How did this happen? How did the lands that are today Syria survive incorporation with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century and the trials and vicissitudes of the Sultan's rule for four centuries, only to collapse into civil war in recent years? Arguably it was the Ottoman period that laid the fragile foundations of a state that had to endure a turbulent twentieth century under French rule, tentative independence, a brutal and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784539610
SKU
V9781784539610
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Ref
99-50
About James A. Reilly
James Reilly is Professor of History at the University of Toronto and specialises in the social history of Syrian cities. He travelled widely in Syria between 1974 and 2010, living there on two separate occasions, and is the author of A Small Town in Syria and The Ottoman Cities of the Lebanon (I.B.Tauris).
Reviews for Fragile Nation, Shattered Land: The Modern History of Syria
To date one of the best contributions in English for one summary of the political and social history of contemporary Syria: a monograph that in little more of two hundred pages it absolutely succeeds in effectively capturing the most characterizing elements of the social and political transformations in the different territories of Syria, without ever falling into the trap of ... Read more