1st Edition

Lebanon The Fragmented Nation

By David C. Gordon Copyright 1980
300 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

Even up to the eve of the civil war, some observers saw the Lebanese system as essentially stable, and exhibiting some of the virtues of liberty and pluralism which had been commended by the French traveller de Volney a century before. But for others its structure was so seriously flawed as to be resolved only by revolution. The civil war resulted ultimately from a conglomeration of... Read more

1. Lebanon: a Marginal State  2. Independent Lebanon: 1946-75  3. Lebanon: Polity, Economy, Society  4. Lebanese Identities  5. A Foreign Education: the American University of Beirut  6. Personal Encounters  7. Lebanon Aflame: 1975-76  8. Reflections in Nostalgia

Biography

David C. Gordon