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Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism - The Politics of Damascus 1860-1920 (Paperback, New Ed) Loot Price: R1,020
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Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism - The Politics of Damascus 1860-1920 (Paperback, New Ed): Philip S. Khoury

Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism - The Politics of Damascus 1860-1920 (Paperback, New Ed)

Philip S. Khoury

Series: Cambridge Middle East Library

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No idea has captured the imagination or expressed the hopes of Arabs in the twentieth century as has Arab nationalism, and perhaps no subject has received so much attention from historians of the Middle East. But, while many historians have explored its intellectual sources, few have considered the social and political environment in which Arab nationalism evolved as an ideological movement. This study attempts to correct the imbalance and, in the process, provides a fascinating interpretation of the rise of the ideology of nationalism within the Arab world. The book focuses on the social and political life of the great notable families of Ottoman Damascus, who, before World War I, played a crucial part in translating the idea into political action. Dr Khoury explains how such long-term factors as the Ottoman reformation, European economic expansion and agrarian commercialization in Syria encouraged rival and socially differentiated networks of influential families to merge into a cohesive upper class. Under the umbrella of a reinvigorated Ottoman central authority, this class of landowners and bureaucrats produced a new urban leadership, which dominated local politics after 1860.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Middle East Library
Release date: December 2003
First published: 1983
Authors: Philip S. Khoury
Dimensions: 227 x 151 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 168
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-53323-2
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Nationalism
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Pressure groups & lobbying
Books > History > World history > General
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LSN: 0-521-53323-6
Barcode: 9780521533232

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