The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East: The Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria - Couverture souple

White, Benjamin Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0748685405 ISBN 13 : 9780748685400

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2012

Synopsis

xiii 239p paperback, illustrated card cover, several maps, bibliography, index, a clean and bright copy, like new

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This book shows which historical developments led people to start describing themselves and others as 'minorities'. Why, in the years around 1920, did the concept of 'minority' suddenly become prominent in public affairs worldwide? Within a decade of World War One, the term became fundamental to public understandings of national and international politics, law, and society. Minorities (and majorities too) were taken to be an objective reality, both in the present and the past. Benjamin White uses a study of Syria under the French mandate to show what historical developments led people to start describing themselves and others as 'minorities'. Through close attention to what changed in French-mandate Syria, and what those changes meant, White argues for a careful reappraisal of a term too often used as an objective description of reality.

Revue de presse :

We often think that modern nation-states suppress other collective identities identities, but this thought-provoking book turns that assumption on its head, showing how fluid regional and religious identities were constituted as minorities through the very process of state-building. Scholars interested in the relationship between collective mobilization and political institutions will want to read this book. --Susan Pedersen, Professor of History, Columbia University

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0748685405
• ISBN 13: 9780748685400
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256