12 The Struggle for Lebanon

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Imagining Syria: Syrian Nationalism, Greater Syria, and the SSNP 6
6. The SSNP in Popular Discourse 13
7. Comparing Radical Rivals: The Communists, the Baʿth, and the Kataʾib 17
8. The SSNP in Academic Discourse 22
9. Organization of the Book 27
10. Part One: A New Generation
11. 1 Nationalist Formation: Antun Saʿadeh in the South American Mahjar 33
12. 2 Establishing a Nationalist Movement 46
13. 3 Freedom Proves Fleeting 66
14. Part Two: The War Years
15. 4 Those Who Have Departed and Those Who Have Remained 97
16. 5 Tightening the Noose: Life Under Vichy 109
17. 6 The Early Days of Independence 127
18. Part Three: The Road to a Failed Revolution and Its Aftermath
19. 7 Erasing the Mandate 145
20. 8 Return to the Field of Struggle 159
21. 9 An Inglorious Revolution 177
22. Part Four: Advance and Retreat
23. 10 Out of the Shadows: Contesting Elections in Syria and Lebanon 197
24. 11 The Malki Affair: The Uprooting of the SSNP in Syria 216
25. 12 The Struggle for Lebanon 237
26. 13 Epilogue: The Rise of Factionalism 256
27. Bibliography 276
28. Index 286