the politics of community in French mandate Syria /
Benjamin Thomas White
Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
c2011
xiii, 239 p. :
ill., maps ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-231) and index
Map 1. Syria c.1936 -- Map 2. The far Northeast of Syria in the 1930s -- Outline chronology of the French Mandate, 1919-39 -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- pt. I. Minorities, majorities and the nation-state -- 'Minorities' and the French Mandate -- pt. II. Separatism and autonomism -- The border and the Kurds -- pt. III. The Franco-Syrian Treaty and the definition of 'minorities' -- Personal status law reform -- Conclusion : minorities, majorities and the writing of history