A Historical Atlas of Lebanon
Title | A Historical Atlas of Lebanon PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn M. Skahill |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 2003-12-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780823939824 |
Maps, text and timeline chronicle the history of Lebanon, from 3000 B.C. to the present.
Historical Atlas of Lebanon
Title | Historical Atlas of Lebanon PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn M. Skahill |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781282221598 |
Atlas of Lebanon
Title | Atlas of Lebanon PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Verdeil |
Publisher | Presses de l’Ifpo |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2019-10-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 2351595491 |
After fifteen years of reconstruction in a relatively peaceful environment spanning the years 1990 to 2004, Lebanon has experienced successive violent political events resulting from complex entangled internal and external struggles. The Syrian crisis and its political, economic and demographic consequences on Lebanon have increased these tensions. This atlas sheds light on these new challenges and adds new data that complete the analyses already published in the Atlas du Liban. Territoires et société (Atlas of Lebanon. Territories and Society) released in 2007 by the same research team. Some of its components are included in this edition. Beyond the international regional crisis and the population movements, it takes into account Lebanon’s socio-economic dimensions, the environmental issues linked to uncontrolled urbanization and to natural risks, as well as conflicts due to local territorial management. This atlas is the result of a collaborative endeavor between French and Lebanese researchers. It uses a geographical approach that puts in the foreground a spatial analysis of social and natural phenomena. Public sources are scarce in Lebanon, especially at the local scale. They are sometimes less reliable and difficult to access. It is particularly the case for the Lebanese census data, conversely data are abundantly available on the refugees population, which is less known than the population of refugees. International data help compare Lebanon to its neighbors. Thematic data produced by some ministries are helpful to provide a detailed view regarding specific domains. Analyses processed on aerial and satellite images have produced essential data on urbanization and environment. Local thematic fieldwork surveys have provided additional data. The book consists of seven chapters. The first one deals with the territorial state-building seen in the light of regional geopolitics, and emphasizes internal violence and the reemergence of militias and armed groups that fight each other and the state army. Lebanon is once again perceived as a territory divided between multiple allegiances. The second chapter is devoted to the analysis of population dynamics, despite the lack of reliable data whose sources are subject to discussion. It includes analyses of internal population flows, the Lebanese diaspora, and the assessment of Syrian refugees’ influx. The third chapter shows the fragility of the Lebanese economic model. Its dependency on foreign investments and on...
Historical Atlas of the Middle East
Title | Historical Atlas of the Middle East PDF eBook |
Author | Greville Stewart Parker Freeman-Grenville |
Publisher | |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Includes 115 two-color maps, accompanied by clear, concise text, providing a stunning and intriguing visual overview of the Middle East spanning the period from 2050 B.C. to the present.
A Historical Atlas of Israel
Title | A Historical Atlas of Israel PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Romano |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 2003-12-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780823939787 |
Maps, text, and timeline chronicle the history of Israel, from biblical times to the present day.
Lebanon, 1761-1994
Title | Lebanon, 1761-1994 PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Carroll |
Publisher | Lebanon Historical Soc |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780914659716 |
Lebanon
Title | Lebanon PDF eBook |
Author | William Harris |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 387 |
Release | 2012-06-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199720592 |
In this impressive synthesis, William Harris narrates the history of the sectarian communities of Mount Lebanon and its vicinity. He offers a fresh perspective on the antecedents of modern multi-communal Lebanon, tracing the consolidation of Lebanon's Christian, Muslim, and Islamic derived sects from their origins between the sixth and eleventh centuries. The identities of Maronite Christians, Twelver Shia Muslims, and Druze, the mountain communities, developed alongside assertions of local chiefs under external powers from the Umayyads to the Ottomans. The chiefs began interacting in a common arena when Druze lord Fakhr al-Din Ma'n achieved domination of the mountain within the Ottoman imperial framework in the early seventeenth century. Harris knits together the subsequent interplay of the elite under the Sunni Muslim Shihab relatives of the Ma'ns after 1697 with demographic instability as Maronites overtook Shia as the largest community and expanded into Druze districts. By the 1840s many Maronites conceived the common arena as their patrimony. Maronite/Druze conflict ensued. Modern Lebanon arose out of European and Ottoman intervention in the 1860s to secure sectarian peace in a special province. In 1920, after the Ottoman collapse, France and the Maronites enlarged the province into the modern country, with a pluralism of communal minorities headed by Maronite Christians and Sunni Muslims. The book considers the flowering of this pluralism in the mid-twentieth century, and the strains of new demographic shifts and of social resentment in an open economy. External intrusions after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war rendered Lebanon's contradictions unmanageable and the country fell apart. Harris contends that Lebanon has not found a new equilibrium and has not transcended its sects. In the early twenty-first century there is an uneasy duality: Shia have largely recovered the weight they possessed in the sixteenth century, but Christians, Sunnis, and Druze are two-thirds of the country. This book offers readers a clear understanding of how modern Lebanon acquired its precarious social intricacy and its singular political character.