Format:
1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2020 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9780755608621
Content:
Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the New Paperback Edition -- Introduction -- SECTION I: ORIGINS -- Chapter I : First Buds: 1860-1918 -- Chapter II : Before and After the War -- SECTION II: THE MANDATE YEARS -- Chapter III : The Mandate Years -- Chapter IV: Three Phoenician Currents -- Chapter V : The Adversaries -- SECTION III : AFTER INDEPENDENCE AND BEYOND -- Chapter VI: Chronicle of a Dream and Disillusionment -- Conclusion: Arabs, Phoenicians and What Lies Between -- Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
"This study follows the social, intellectual and political development of the Phoenician myth of origin in Lebanon from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the 20th. Asher Kaufman demonstrates the role played by the lay, liberal Syrian-Lebanese who resided in Beirut, Alexandria and America towards the end of the 19th century in the birth and dissemination of this myth. Kaufman investigates the crucial place Phoenicianism occupied in the formation of Greater Lebanon in 1920. He also explores the way the Jesuit Order and the French authorities propagated this myth during the mandate years. The book also analyses literary writings of different Lebanese who advocated this myth, and of others who opposed it. Finally, the text provides an overview of Phoenicianism from Independece in 1943 to the present, demonstrating that despite the general objection to this myth, some aspects of it entered mainstream Lebanese national narratives. Kaufman's works should be of use to anyone interested in the birth of modern Lebanon as we know it today."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Also issued in print.
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780857736024
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780767796
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781860649820
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9780755608621
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