Inventing Lebanon —— Nationalism and the State Under the Mandate

----- 发明黎巴嫩：民族主义与授权下的国家

ISBN: 9781860648571 出版年：2002 页码：275 Kais M Firro Bloomsbury Publishing

Inventing Lebanon examines the history behind an idea: a new polity of 'Greater Lebanon'. It shows how, under the powerful influence of the French Mandate, various groups of the local elite attempted to create what amounted to a new Lebanese nationalism, carving the state into Maronite Christian, Sunni and Shiite power bases. The results only accentuated the divisions already inherent in this multi-ethnic and multi-faith society, and were to pave the way for the instability and wars that have plagued the country ever since, and are still so frighteningly present there today.