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I.B.Tauris, 2018-09-30. Hardcover. As new. 6.46x1.06x9.06. *Condition: used - as new*---------------------------. The Syrian state is less than 100 years old, born from the wreckage of World War I. Today it stands in ruins, shattered by brutal civil war. How did this happen? How did the lands that are today Syria survive incorporation with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century and the trials and vicissitudes of the Sultan's rule for four centuries, only to collapse into civil war in recent years?Arguably it was the Ottoman period that laid the fragile foundations of a state that had to endure a turbulent twentieth century under French rule, tentative independence, a brutal and corrupt dictatorship and eventual disintegration in the twenty-first.. Across a diverse cast of individuals, rich and poor, James Reilly explores these fractious and formative periods of Ottoman, Egyptian and French rule, and the ways that these contributed to the contradictions and failings of the rule of the Assad…
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Fragile Nation Shattered Land
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Fragile Nation, Shattered Land: The Modern History of Syria
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London: I.B. Tauris & Co.. 1st printing (2019). 258pp. Near Fine/Near Fine copy, publisher's press release laid in, now preserved in archival jacket protector . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2019.
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