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Fragile Nation, Shattered Land - The Modern History of Syria (Hardcover)
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Fragile Nation, Shattered Land - The Modern History of Syria (Hardcover)
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The Syrian state is less than 100 years old, born from the wreckage
of World War I. Today it stands in ruins, shattered by brutal civil
war. How did this happen? How did the lands that are today Syria
survive incorporation with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth
century and the trials and vicissitudes of the Sultan's rule for
four centuries, only to collapse into civil war in recent years?
Arguably it was the Ottoman period that laid the fragile
foundations of a state that had to endure a turbulent twentieth
century under French rule, tentative independence, a brutal and
corrupt dictatorship and eventual disintegration in the
twenty-first. Across a diverse cast of individuals, rich and poor,
James Reilly explores these fractious and formative periods of
Ottoman, Egyptian and French rule, and the ways that these
contributed to the contradictions and failings of the rule of the
Assad family; and to a civil war which produced the so-called
Islamic State. In charting Syria's history over the last five
centuries in their entirety for the first time, Reilly demonstrates
the myriad historical, cultural, social, economic and political
factors that bind Syrians together, as well as those that have torn
them apart. Based on primary sources, recent historiography in
English, French and Arabic and more than 30 years' experience
living and working in the region, this is the essential book for
understanding modern Syria and the Middle East.
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