Conflict on Mount Lebanon : the Druze, the Maronites and collective memory /

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Author / Creator:Rabah, Makram, author.
Imprint:Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
©2020
Description:1 online resource (xvii, 317 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Series:Alternative histories : narratives from the Middle East and Mediterranean
Alternative histories.
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Format: E-Resource Map Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13563643
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ISBN:9781474474191
1474474195
9781474474207
1474474209
9781474474177
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Makram Rabah is a lecturer in the Department of History at the American University of Beirut. He is the author of A Campus at War: Student Politics at the American University of Beirut, 1967-1975 (Nelson Publications, 2009).
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Summary:"The Druze and the Maronites, arguably the two founding communities of modern Lebanon, have the reputation of being primordial enemies. Makram Rabah attempts to gauge the impact of collective memory on determining the course and the nature of the conflict between these communities in Mount Lebanon. He takes as his focus 'the War of the Mountain' in 1982, reconstructing the events of this war through the framework of collective remembrance and oral history."--
Other form:Print version: Rabah, Makram. Conflict on Mount Lebanon. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020] 1474474179
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Studying the Druze-Maronite conflict through the prism of collective memory and oral history
  • 2. The Druze and the Maronites : the perception of the other
  • 3. The communal centres of power and elements of collectiveness
  • 4. The road to conflict
  • 5. The point of no return
  • 6. The war of others vs. Druze-Maronite collective animosity
  • 7. History meets the battlefield
  • 8. Post-conflict rehashing and preserving of collective memory
  • Conclusion : Post-war Lebanon : the quest for reconciliation
  • Appendix : Table of Interviews.