This study examines the history behind an idea: a new polity of βGreater Lebanonβ. It shows how, under the powerful influence of the French Mandate, various groups of the local elite attempted to create what amounted to a new Lebanese nationalism, carving the state into Maronite Christian, Sunni and
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