A Short History of Lebanon

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Distinctive Features....Pages 1-7
Setting of the Stage....Pages 8-14
Earliest Settlers: The Canaanites....Pages 15-23
Independence, Trade and Colonization....Pages 24-36
Literary and Religious Activity....Pages 37-42
Under Mesopotamian and Persian Domination....Pages 43-50
Alexander and his Successors....Pages 51-58
In Roman Days....Pages 59-67
Romanized Lebanon Christianized....Pages 68-79
In the Orbit of Islam and Arabism....Pages 80-88
Enter the Maronites and the Druzes....Pages 89-103
Under Abbasids and Successor States....Pages 104-126
Late Medieval Lebanon....Pages 127-141
Within the Ottoman Crescent....Pages 142-156
Feudal Lebanon: the Mans....Pages 157-166
The Shihabs....Pages 167-175
External and Internal Relations....Pages 176-183
Between Medievalism and Modernism....Pages 184-189
Civil Disturbances....Pages 190-197
Mount Lebanon Under Mutasarrifs....Pages 198-209
Transformation: Economic, Social, Intellectual....Pages 210-223
Under the Cedar Flag....Pages 224-236
Back Matter....Pages 237-249