Syria : society, culture, and polity
Title:
Syria : society, culture, and polity
Author:
Antoun, Richard T.
Publication Information:
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, [1991]
©1991
Physical Description:
xviii, 165 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
General Note:
The product of a conference held in Apr. 1987 at the State University of New York--Binghamton, sponsored by the Southwest Asian and North African Studies Program.
Language:
English
Contents:
Ethnicity, clientship, and class : their changing meaning / Richard T. Antoun -- Syrian political culture : a historical perspective / Philip S. Khoury -- Class and state in Ba'thist Syria / Raymond A. Hinnebusch -- The Alawis of Syria : religious ideology and organization / Fuad I. Khuri -- Land reform and class structure in rural Syria / Sulayman N. Khalaf -- The emancipation of women in contemporary Syrian literature / Salih J. Altoma -- Asad : between institutions and autocracy / Patrick Seale -- The nature of the Soviet-Syrian link under Asad and under Gorbachev / Helena Cobban.
Reading Level:
1550 Lexile.
Geographic Term:
ISBN:
9780791407134
9780791407141
Format :
Book
