Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon

by Elizabeth Thompson and Elizabeth F. Thompson

Book Overview

French rule in Syria and Lebanon coincided with the rise of colonial resistance around the world and with profound social trauma after World War I. In this tightly argued study, Elizabeth Thompson shows how Syrians and Lebanese mobilized, like other colonized peoples, to claim the terms of citizenship enjoyed in the European metropole. The negotiations between the French and citizens of the Mandate set the terms of politics for decades after Syria...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231106610
• ISBN13: 9780231106610
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher