Author: Joarder, Safiuddin
Title: Syria under the French Mandate : The Early Phase, 1920-27
Description: Dacca [Bangladesh], Asiatic Society, 1977. orig. wrappers. 24x16cm, xii,241,(3) pp, Series: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh Publication No. 31.. 3 maps.. Rubbed. Spine crudely paper-taped. Good. ¶ Contents: The Land & the People; Syria under the Ottoman Turks; The Rise of Arab Nationalism; France & the Levant; The Arab Revolt, 1916; An Arab Government & Its Fall; The Establishment of a Mandate: French Opinion; Early Difficulties; Territorial Re-organization; The Administrative Set-Up:The Executive; The Judicial Set-Up; The Legislature; Economic Condition: The Role of the Mandatory Power: Land Tenure & Agriculture; Industry; Currency & Banking; Tariff Policy; Before the Storm: General Sarrail & his Policy; Captain Carbillet & Jabal al-Duruz; The Uprising: The First Phase; The Uprising & De Jouvenel; Peace Negotiations; The Elections; The Nettoyage Operations; The Military Situation; De Jouvenel & the Native Government; The Last Phase of the Uprising: Causes of Failure: Conclusions;Appendices: Membership of the Young Arab Society & of the General Syrian Congress; Faisal's Last Letter to General Gouraud; The Proclamation of Sultan Pasha al-Atrash; The Proclamation of Henri de Jouvenel meant for the Druze People.

Keywords: Syria, Nationalist, Nationalism, National Uprising, French Colonialism, Mandate Mandatory, Administration, Colonial History, Politics Political