Civilization and the Making of the State in Lebanon and Syria (Middle East Today)

Delatolla, Andrew

ISBN 10: 3030576892 / ISBN 13: 9783030576899

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Civilization and the Making of the State in Lebanon and Syria (Middle East Today)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030576892
• ISBN 13: 9783030576899
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This book argues that the modern state, from the nineteenth century to the contemporary period, has consistently been used as a means to measure civilizational engagement and attainment. This volume historicizes this dynamic, examining how it impacted state-making in Lebanon and Syria. By putting social, political, and economic pressure on the Ottoman Empire to replicate the modern state in Europe, the book examines processes of racialization, nationalist development, continued imperial expansion, and resistance that became embedded in the state as it was assembled. By historicizing post-imperial and post-colonial state formation in Lebanon and Syria, it is possible to engage in a conceptual separation from the modern state, abandoning the ongoing reproduction of the state as a standard, or benchmark, of civilization and progress.

About the Author

Andrew Delatolla is Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds, UK.