Featured White Papers
- Fax purchasing decision: Fax server or Fax service? (Esker)
- Enterprise PBX comparison guide (VoIP-News)
- Hosted CRM buyer's guide (Inside CRM)
Content provided in partnership with
Syria, Society, Culture, and Polity
Journal of Third World Studies, Fall 2000 by Abraham, A J
Antoun, Richard T. and Donald Quataert, (eds.). Syria, Society, Culture, and Polity. NY: State University of New York Press, 1991. 165 pp.
This slim volume speaks powerfully to all who read it. The paucity of works on modern Syria led the authors, an anthropoligist (R.T. Antoun) and a historian (Donald Quaraert), to host a conference at the State University of New York (at Binghamton), where they teach, on a variety of interesting subjects relating to the history, society and culture of modern Syria.
The main theme of this study links the Ottoman past to the secular Bathist state that is modern Syria. Relying upon various disciplines, this study offers interesting and informative articles on the Alawites, Syrian-Soviet relations, ethnicity,class and political culture, a literary view of the emancipation of women, and the Asad regime.
These articles have no single theme that ties them together other than a view of current Syrian life - and that is enough to make the book a valuable work for the present. This book is original in scope and quite provocative.
A.J. Abraham
John Jay College (CUNY)
Copyright Association of Third World Studies, Inc. Fall 2000
Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights Reserved
