《Lebanon In History》

PART ⅠIN PREHISTORY1

CHAPTER Ⅰ DISTINCTIVE FEATURES：GEOGRAPHIC，HISTORICAL，CULTURAL3

CHAPTER Ⅱ THE MOUNTAIN AND THE PLAIN11

CHAPTER Ⅲ CLIMATE，PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE25

CHAPTER Ⅳ IN PRE-LITERARY TIMES42

CHAPTER Ⅴ THE METAL AGE57

PART ⅡANCIENT SEMITIC TIMES65

CHAPTER Ⅵ THE CANAANITES：FIRST MAJOR COMMUNITY IN LEBANON67

CHAPTER Ⅶ PERIOD OF INDEPENDENCE：TRADE，ARTS AND COLONIES92

CHAPTER Ⅷ LITERATURE，RELIGION AND OTHER CULTURAL ASPECTS122

CHAPTER Ⅸ WITHIN THE SPHERE OF ASSYRO-BABYLONIAN INFLUENCE141

CHAPTER Ⅹ A PERSIAN PROVINCE150

PART ⅢTHE GRECO-ROMAN PERIOD157

CHAPTER Ⅺ ALEXANDER AND HIS SUCCESSORS，THE SELEUCIDS159

CHAPTER Ⅻ ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL ASPECTS：HELLENIZATION174

CHAPTER ⅩⅢ UNDER ROMAN SWAY185

CHAPTER ⅩⅣ INTELLECTUAL INTERESTS201

CHAPTER ⅩⅤ LEBANON CHRISTIANIZED205

CHAPTER ⅩⅥ HELIOPOLIS A RELIGIOUS AND BERYTUS AND EDUCATIONAL CENTRE213

PART ⅣTHE ARAB ERA233

CHAPTER ⅩⅦ IN THE EMBRACE OF ISLAM235

CHAPTER ⅩⅧ MARONITES，DRUZES AND OTHER SECTARIANS244

CHAPTER ⅩⅨ UNDER THE＇ABBASID CALIPHATE AND SUCCESSOR STATES266

CHAPTER ⅩⅩ WEST MEETS EAST-THE CRUSADES281

CHAPTER ⅩⅪ LATIN-LEBANESE INTERRELATIONSHIP310

CHAPTER ⅩⅫ LIFE IN THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES327

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅢ ON THE EVE OF OTTOMAN ASCENDANCY347

PART ⅤUNDER THE OTTOMAN TURKS355

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅣ UNDER THE CRESCENT AND THE STAR357

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅤ THE PRINCES OF THE MOUNTAIN：THE MA＇NS371

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅥ THE PRINCES OF THE MOUNTAIN：THE SHIHABS386

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅦ FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS398

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅧ THE NINETEENTH：A CENTURY OF CHANGE412

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅨ TWO DECADES OF CIVIL DISTURBANCE：1840 TO 1860433

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅩ THE MUTA？ARRIF？YAH OF JABAL LUBNAN442

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅪ THE IMPACT OF THE WEST AND THE MODERN AWAKENING452

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅫ ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL UPHEAVALS470

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅩⅢ TWO WORLD WARS AND THE MANDATE BETWEEN483

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅩⅣ UNDER THE CEDAR FLAG：PROBLEMS AND PROGRESS497

INDEX509