Syria - A Modern History (Lesch David W.)(Paperback / softback)

Today Syria is a country known for all the wrong reasons: civil war, vicious sectarianism, and major humanitarian crisis. But how did this once rich, multi-cultural society end up as the site of one of the twenty-first century's most devastating and brutal conflicts?

In this incisive book, internationally-renowned Syria expert David Lesch takes the reader on an illuminating journey through the last hundred years of Syrian history - from the end of the Ottoman Empire through to the current civil war. Tracing Syria's role in World War One, its post-independence instability, involvement in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and its relationships with its neighbors and superpowers, Lesch also highlights the socio-economic and cultural developments that helped to lay the groundwork for Syria's descent into chaos after the Arab Spring. The Syria he reveals is a fractured mosaic, whose
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