8vo. xii, 313 pp., 1 map, cloth in d/w, notes, biblio. index, copy in mint condition, new, I. B. Tauris, London, first edition, 1997.

Synopsis

In this volume, the second in a trilogy on Lebanon under the French mandate, Zamir looks at the highly complex process of Lebanon’s emergence as a nation-state. He provides a full documentary history of the early power struggle between Lebanon’s political, religious and economic elite – a process that both set the stage for the country’s later development and planted the seeds of future conflict. [Jacket].