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Contents

1 The Emirate of Mount Lebanon ( 1523 ? 1842)

2 The Bloody Death of the Muqata` ji System ( 1842-1861)

3 Grandeur and Misery of the Mutasarrifi ya ( 1861-1915)

4 Beirut, Capital of Trade and Culture ( 1820-1918)

5 Greater Lebanon: The Dialectics of Attachment and Detachment ( 1915 - 1920)

6 From Mandate to Independence ( 1920 - 1943)

7 The Merchant Republic ( 1943 - 1952)

8 The Pro- Western Authoritarianism of Kamil Sham` un ( 1952 - 1958)

9 Shihabism and the Diffi cult Autonomy of the State ( 1958 - 1970)

10 From Social Crisis to Civil War ( 1968 - 1975)

11 Reform by Arms ( 1975 - 1976)

12 The Longest coup d'etat ( 1977 - 1982)

13 The War Order ( 1983 - 1990)

Postscript: Ambiguities and Contradictions of the Ta'if Agreement

Chronology

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index