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A house of many mansions : the history of Lebanon reconsidered

Lebanon is one of the world's most divided countries, yet the Lebanese have never shown a keener consciousness of common identity. Kamal S. Salibi examines the historical myths on which his country's warring communities have based their conflicting visions of the Lebanese nation.
Print Book, English, 2005, ©1988
I.B. Tauris, London, 2005, ©1988
History
v, 247 pages : map ; 22 cm
9781860649127, 1860649122
224705916
How it all began; the confidence game; talking geography; rose among the thorns; the Maronite record; the imagined principality; the mountain refuge; Ottoman Lebanon - how unique?; Phoenicia resurrected; trial and error; the war over Lebanese history; a house of many mansions.