All Honourable Men: The Social Origins of War in Lebanon

Contents
Lebanese Confessional Communities
Chronologies of Lebanese History
	Regimes
	Post-independence presidencies
	Confessional harmony and conflict
1. An Auto-Critique
	1.	Lebanon and confessionalism
	2.	Class and client
	3.	Honour and vengeance
	4.	Ethnicity and massacres
	5.	Modernization and confessionalism
	6.	Ethnicity and history
2. Honour and Confession
	1.	Nobility and respect
	2.	Honour and shame
	3.	Nobility and honour
	4.	Agrarian society and the city
	5.	Respect and honour
	6.	Honour and the state
	7.	Confessionalism and war
	8.	Honour and reproduction
3. Honour and History
	1.	Lebanon and the Mediterranean
	2.	Honour and the European Renaissance
	3.	Lebanon and the nineteenth century
	4.	Honour and reproduction
	5.	Mafia and feuding
	6.	Honour and confession
4. Patriarchy and Surveillance
	1.	Arab and Lebanese nationalism
	2.	Ethnicity and kinship
	3.	Ethnic violence and psychoanalysis
	4.	Ethnic conflict and sociology
	5.	Neopatriarchy and surveillance
	6.	Conclusion: external determinants of ethnic nationalism
5. Civil Society and Confessionalism in Postwar Lebanon
	1.	Liberal nationalism and patriarchal honour
	2.	Reconstruction and economic growth
	3.	Elections and confessionalism
	4.	Neopatriarchy and the future
References
Index