Lebanon: The Fragmented Nation

by David C. Gordon

Book Overview

Even up to the eve of the civil war, some observers saw the Lebanese system as essentially stable, and exhibiting some of the virtues of liberty and pluralism which had been commended by the French traveller de Volney a century before. But for others its structure was so seriously flawed as to be resolved only by revolution. The civil war resulted ultimately from a conglomeration of interdependent factors - the religious conflict of Christian and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138923303
• ISBN13: 9781138923300
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"