An Occasion for War: Civil Conflict in Lebanon and Damascus in 1860

by Fawaz and Leila Tarazi Fawaz

Leila Fawaz's pioneering study tells the story of the 1860 civil wars that began in Mount Lebanon and spilled over into Damascus. This period witnessed the most severe outbreak of sectarian violence in the history of Ottoman Syria and Lebanon. The author's close analytical narrative of the dramatic events of that year is set against the broader themes of nineteenth-century social, political, and economic change. Fawaz shows how social conflict, including...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520087828
• ISBN13: 9780520087828
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 300 Pages