A History of Modern Lebanon - Second Edition

Front matter

po e A History of » Modern Lebanon

Second Edition

Fawwaz Traboulsi

Part I: Ottoman Lebanon

1 The Emirate of Mount Lebanon (1523-1842) 3 2 The Bloody Death of the Mugata'ji System (1842-1861) 24 3 Grandeur and Misery of the Mutasarrifiya (1861-1915) 41 4 Beirut, Capital of Trade and Culture (1820-1918) 52

PART II: STATE AND SOCIETY 5 Greater Lebanon: The Dialectics of Attachment and

Detachment (1915-1920) 75 6 From Mandate to Independence (1920-1943) 88 7 The Merchant Republic (1943-1952) 110 8 The Pro-Western Authoritarianism of Kamil Sham'un (1952-1958) 129 9 Shihabism and the Difficult Autonomy of the State (1958-1970) 139 10 From Social Crisis to Civil War (1968-1975) 157

PART II: THE WARS OF LEBANON

11 Reform by Arms (1975-1976) 193 12 The Longest Coup d’état (1977-1982) 211 13 The War Order (1983-1990) 226 14 Ambiguities and Contradictions of the Ta’if Agreement 246 Chronology 253 Glossary 261 Notes 263 Bibliography 281

List of Maps

. Modern Lebanon

The Mutasarrifiya

. The wilayet of Beirut

. Greater Lebanon in the partition of Syria, 1920 . Beirut in the civil war, 1975-76

. Sectarian representation of parliamentary seats since Ta’if

NankwWNe vi