From the Syrian Land to the States of Syria and Lebanon

Table of Contents
	Introduction
1. The Legacy of the Ottoman Empire
	Identities and loyalties in Bilad al-Sham at the beginning of the early modem period
	Building a cultural identity: the case of Khalil al-Khuri
	Reshaping Damascus: social change and patterns of architecture in late Ottoman times
	From social status to intellectual activity: some prosopographical observations on the municipal council in Beirut, 1868-1908
	The political significance of an Ottoman education: Maktab 'Anbar revisited
2. Religion and the Change of Culture
	The Nusayris before the Tanzimat in the eyes of Ottoman provincial administrators, 1804-1834
	Sufi reformist diffusion and the rise of Arabism in late Ottoman Syria
	Post hoc ergo propter hoc? Reassessing the lineages of nationalism in Bilad al-Sham
3. Society and State Building
	East of Lebanon: colonial borders?
	Safarbarlik: Ottoman Syria and the Great War
	From urban notables to “noble Arabs”: shifting discourses in the emergence of nationalism in the Arab East, 1910-1916
	The birth pangs of rising modernity in Syria
4. The Case of Lebanon
	Rethinking American missionaries and nineteenth-century historiography of the Middle East
	Beyond the mountain refuge: searching for a wider perspective on Ottoman policy in Mount Lebanon
	Shifting identities and representations of the nation among the Maronite secular elite in the late Ottoman period
5. From Early Resistance to Radical Nationalism in Syria
	The northern Syrian revolts of 1919-1921 and the Sharifian regime: congruence or conflict of interests and ideologies?
	Rural resistance and the introduction of modem forms of consciousness in the Syrian countryside, 1918-1926
	Identifying rebels: insurgents in the countryside of Damascus, 1925-1926
	Zaki al-Arsuzi and Syrian-Arab nationalism in the periphery: the Alexandretta crisis of 1936-19391
	An effort to foster Arab nationalism in the early 1930s: the League of National Action
	The experience of organized nationalism: radical discourse and political socialization in Syria and Lebanon, 1930-19581
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