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Syria's Democratic Years

Syria's Democratic Years Citizens, Experts, and Media in the 1950S - Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa

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The years 1954-1958 in Syria are popularly known as "The Democratic Years," a brief period of civilian government before the consolidation of authoritarian rule. Kevin W. Martin provides a cultural history of the period and argues that the authoritarian outcome was anything but inevitable. Examining the flourishing broadcast and print media of the time, he focuses on three public figures, experts whose professions-law, the military, and medicine-projected modernity and modeled the new Arab citizen. This experiment with democracy, however abortive, offers a model of governance from Syria's historical experience that could serve as an alternative to dictatorship.

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ISBN: 9780253018878
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 956.91042
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 234
Weight: 304g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 15mm