Table of Contents

Note on Transliteration
Acknowledgements
Preface to the New Paperback Edition

Introduction

SECTION I: ORIGINS

Chapter I : First Buds: 1860-1918

Chapter II : Before and After the War

SECTION II: THE MANDATE YEARS

Chapter III : The Mandate Years

Chapter IV: Three Phoenician Currents

Chapter V : The Adversaries

SECTION III : AFTER INDEPENDENCE AND BEYOND

Chapter VI: Chronicle of a Dream and Disillusionment

Conclusion: Arabs, Phoenicians and What Lies Between

Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

'Reviving Phoenicia' follows the social, intellectual and political development of the Phoenician myth of origin in Lebanon from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth.

About the Author

Asher Kaufman is Associate Professor of Peace Studies and Director of doctoral studies at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame. He previously taught at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and was a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace. Kaufman is the author of Contested Frontiers: Cartography, Sovereignty and Conflict at the Syria, Lebanon, Israel Tri-Border Region (2014).

Reviews

Asher Kaufman has produced a fascinating study which will be of interest not only to students of Lebanese and Middle Eastern history but also to those interested in nationalism generally and in the Middle East in particular. Islam and Christian- Muslim Relations, Vol 16, No 4 (October 2005)