Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgment xxi
5. 1 On Proxy Wars and Surrogate Victims 1
6. 2 The Radicalization of Communal Loyalties 23
7. 3 The Drift into Incivility 38
8. 4 Peasants, Commoners and Clerics Resistance and Rebellion: 1820–1860 62
9. 5 Civil Strife of 1958: Revolt and Counter Revolt 103
10. 6 Lebanon’s Golden/Gilded Age: 1943–1975 151
11. 7 From Playground to Battleground: Preludes to Civil Strife 204
12. 8 Scares and Scars of War 232
13. 9 From Shakib Efendi to Ta’if 273
14. 10 Prospects For Civility 304
15. Notes 329
16. Bibliography 335
17. Index 353