The state of Lebanon : popular politics and institution building in the wake of independence / Ziad Abu-Rish.
| Author/creator | Abu-Rish, Ziad author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2026] |
| Description | xi, 365 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/590ddb5b-264b-85fb-7fde-1c5e134696ab |
| Contents | Introduction : beyond exceptionalism -- The formation of Lebanon -- Bureaucratic expansion -- In barracks and schools -- Urban labor and the state -- Women and suffrage -- The Beirut Electricity Company -- Conclusion : where is the state (wayn al-dawleh)? |
| Abstract | "Lebanon gained its formal political independence in 1943. During the dozen years that followed, women and men across class, sectarian, geographic, and ideological divides built, challenged, and reformed the institutional arrangements that would shape the country. With this book, Ziad Abu-Rish traces shifting patterns of alliances and conflict that shaped the material and representational production of the Lebanese nation-state. Exploring labor regimes, women's suffrage, the provision of electricity in Beirut, public education, and the armed forces--and the meetings, lectures, pamphlets, delegations, and protests they produced--Abu-Rish demonstrates how elite and popular groups mobilized normative ideas about independence and state power. The State of Lebanon offers a new social and institutional history of post-colonial Lebanon. Abu-Rish challenges common narratives of an absent, weak, or failed state. Instead, state institutional arrangements emerge as objects and subjects of political mobilization by politicians, bureaucrats, party activists, students, and workers. Rather than read history backward from the present, he approaches the past on its own terms. In so doing, Abu-Rish offers significant insights into politics, social life, and the state in Lebanon--grounded in the early post-independence period yet critical to how we understand Lebanon today"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-348) index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Abu-Rish, Ziad State of Lebanon Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2026 9781503645837 |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Abu-Rish, Ziad The state of Lebanon Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2026 9781503645837 |
| LCCN | 2025028718 |
| ISBN | 9781503645820 |
| ISBN | 9781503645295 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1503645290 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1503645827 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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