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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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.