How the West stole democracy from the Arabs : the Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the destruction o...
How the West stole democracy from the Arabs : the Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the destruction o...
How the West stole democracy from the Arabs : the Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the destruction of its historic liberal-Islamic alliance / Elizabeth F. Thompson.
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New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2020.
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G 2020/3902
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English
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xxvi, 466 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
An Arab stat in Syria -- A chilly peace at Paris -- Syria's declaration of independence -- The constitution: a civil weapon against colonization -- Syria's expulsion from the civilized world.
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Publisher
New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2020.
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First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2020.
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"When Europe's Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of an independent Arab state. In October 1918, the Arabs' military leader, Prince Faisal, victoriously entered Damascus and proclaimed a constitutional government in an independent Greater Sy...
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How the West stole democracy from the Arabs : the Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the destruction of its historic liberal-Islamic alliance / Elizabeth F. Thompson.
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Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the destruction of its historic liberal-Islamic alliance
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2020/3902
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0802148204 hardcover
9780802148209 hardcover
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956.9103
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991024347605402626
