A.J. Abraham, Ph.D., is professor of history and Middle Eastern studies.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 AcknowledgementsChapter 3 IntroductionChapter 4 1 The Lord of The Land: Amir Fakhr al-Din al-Mani II and The Druze RevoltChapter 5 2 The Shihabi Amirate (Emirate) I: Neutrality in the Era of Napoleon and Ahmed al-Jazzar PashaChapter 6 3 The Shihabi Amirate (Emirate) II: Lebanon and the Egyptian InvasionChapter 7 4 The Maronite Establishment: Independence and the Maronite ChurchChapter 8 5 The Maronite Insurrection in Mount Lebanon (1841-1845): The Struggle to Secure IndependenceChapter 9 6 The Maronite-Druze Civil War of 1860: A Decade of Conflicts the Ottoman Empire Attempted to Reintegrate Lebanon Tightly into the Porte's EmbraceChapter 10 7 The Mutasarrifiyah of Jabal Lubnan: The Arab World's First Representative GovernmentChapter 11 8 Under French Rule: The Interwar Years and the Origins of Political ModernizationChapter 12 9 Independent Lebanon: Confessional Democracy and Political TensionsChapter 13 10 The War Years (1975-1985)Chapter 14 11 Post War Lebanon (1985-1996)Chapter 15 12 The Contemporary Scene (1997-2007)Chapter 16 ConclusionChapter 17 EpilogueChapter 18 Select BibliographyChapter 19 About the Author

A.J. Abraham, Ph.D., is professor of history and Middle Eastern studies.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 AcknowledgementsChapter 3 IntroductionChapter 4 1 The Lord of The Land: Amir Fakhr al-Din al-Mani II and The Druze RevoltChapter 5 2 The Shihabi Amirate (Emirate) I: Neutrality in the Era of Napoleon and Ahmed al-Jazzar PashaChapter 6 3 The Shihabi Amirate (Emirate) II: Lebanon and the Egyptian InvasionChapter 7 4 The Maronite Establishment: Independence and the Maronite ChurchChapter 8 5 The Maronite Insurrection in Mount Lebanon (1841-1845): The Struggle to Secure IndependenceChapter 9 6 The Maronite-Druze Civil War of 1860: A Decade of Conflicts the Ottoman Empire Attempted to Reintegrate Lebanon Tightly into the Porte's EmbraceChapter 10 7 The Mutasarrifiyah of Jabal Lubnan: The Arab World's First Representative GovernmentChapter 11 8 Under French Rule: The Interwar Years and the Origins of Political ModernizationChapter 12 9 Independent Lebanon: Confessional Democracy and Political TensionsChapter 13 10 The War Years (1975-1985)Chapter 14 11 Post War Lebanon (1985-1996)Chapter 15 12 The Contemporary Scene (1997-2007)Chapter 16 ConclusionChapter 17 EpilogueChapter 18 Select BibliographyChapter 19 About the Author

A.J. Abraham, Ph.D., is professor of history and Middle Eastern studies.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 AcknowledgementsChapter 3 IntroductionChapter 4 1 The Lord of The Land: Amir Fakhr al-Din al-Mani II and The Druze RevoltChapter 5 2 The Shihabi Amirate (Emirate) I: Neutrality in the Era of Napoleon and Ahmed al-Jazzar PashaChapter 6 3 The Shihabi Amirate (Emirate) II: Lebanon and the Egyptian InvasionChapter 7 4 The Maronite Establishment: Independence and the Maronite ChurchChapter 8 5 The Maronite Insurrection in Mount Lebanon (1841-1845): The Struggle to Secure IndependenceChapter 9 6 The Maronite-Druze Civil War of 1860: A Decade of Conflicts the Ottoman Empire Attempted to Reintegrate Lebanon Tightly into the Porte's EmbraceChapter 10 7 The Mutasarrifiyah of Jabal Lubnan: The Arab World's First Representative GovernmentChapter 11 8 Under French Rule: The Interwar Years and the Origins of Political ModernizationChapter 12 9 Independent Lebanon: Confessional Democracy and Political TensionsChapter 13 10 The War Years (1975-1985)Chapter 14 11 Post War Lebanon (1985-1996)Chapter 15 12 The Contemporary Scene (1997-2007)Chapter 16 ConclusionChapter 17 EpilogueChapter 18 Select BibliographyChapter 19 About the Author