Title The emergence of minorities in the Middle East : the politics and community in French Mandate Syria / Benjamin Thomas White.

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index.
Contents	Minorities, majorities and the nation-state -- 'Minorites' and the French mandate -- Separatism and autonomism -- The border and the Kurds -- The Franco-Syrian treaty and the definition of 'minorities' -- Personal status law reform -- Conclusion: minorities, majorities and the writing of history.
Summary	This text uses a study of Syria under the French mandate to show what historical developments led people to start describing themselves and others as 'minorities'.
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Subject	Minorities -- Syria -- 20th century.
	Minorities.
	Syria.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	National characteristics, Syrian.
	National characteristics, Syrian.
	Ethnicity -- Syria -- 20th century.
	Ethnicity.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: White, Benjamin Thomas. Emergence of minorities in the Middle East. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011 0748641874 (OCoLC)701470761
ISBN	9780748647552 (electronic book)
	0748647554 (electronic book)
	0748641874
	9780748641871