Fragile nation, shattered land : the modern history of Syria /

How did the lands that are today Syria survive the vicissitudes of centuries of Ottoman, Egyptian and French rule, only to stand in ruins today, shattered by a brutal civil war? To provide answers, James Reilly traces five centuries of Syrian history, from the Ottoman period to the present. Reilly b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reilly, James A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Syria becomes Ottoman, sixteenth to seventeenth centuries
  • Syria's "long" eighteenth century : political crises and local rulers
  • Syria between Europe and the Ottomans, 1820s-1900s
  • The idea of Syria and World War I
  • France and the creation of the Syrian territorial state
  • Crises of independent statehood
  • Thirty years of Hafez al-Assad
  • A false "Spring" and gathering storms
  • Uprising, civil war and fragmentation
  • Syria divided.