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A House of Many Mansions The History of Lebanon Reconsidered Hardcover - 1989

by Kamal Salibi

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Today Lebanon is one of the world's most divided countries. But paradoxically the faction-ridden Lebanese, both Christians and Muslims, have never shown a keener consciousness of common identity. How can this be? In the light of modern scholarship, a famous Lebanese writer and scholar examines the historical myths on which his country's warring communities have based their conflicting visions of the Lebanese nation. He shows that Lebanon cannot afford this divisiveness, that in order to develop and maintain a sense of political unity, it is necesary to distinuish fact from fiction and then build on what is real in the common experience of both groups. Salibi offers a major reinterpretation of Lebanese history and provides remarkable insights into the dynamic of Lebanon's recent conflict. In so doing, he illuminates important facets of his country's present and future. This book also gives a masterly account of how the imagined communities that underlie modern nationalism are created and will be of interest to students of international affairs as well as Near Eastern scholars.

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  • Title A House of Many Mansions The History of Lebanon Reconsidered
  • Author Kamal Salibi
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Berkeley
  • Pages 254
  • Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date January 3, 1989
  • ISBN 9780520065178

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Kamal Salibi is Professor of History at the American University of Beirut. He has published many articles, and among his books are The Modern History of Lebanon and Crossroads to Civil War.
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by Kamal Salibi

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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Fine dust jacket. 22 x 14 cm. Octavo. 247pp. Brown cloth in dust jacket. Some light age toning to the pages. "Today Lebanon is one of the world's most divided countries. But paradoxically the faction-ridden Lebanese, both Christians and Muslims, have never shown a keener consciousness of common identity. How can this be? In the light of modern scholarship, a famous Lebanese writer and scholar examines the historical myths on which his country's warring communities have based their conflicting visions of the Lebanese nation. He shows that Lebanon cannot afford this divisiveness, that in order to develop and maintain a sense of political unity, it is necesary to distinuish fact from fiction and then build on what is real in the common experience of both groups. Salibi offers a major reinterpretation of Lebanese history and provides remarkable insights into the dynamic of Lebanon's recent conflict. In so doing, he… Read More
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