HIST 46 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Anglo-Egyptian Treaty Of 1936, Arab Nationalism, Stymie
Document Summary
Saudi arabia is not a mandate, but are close to british. Great suffering during ww1 600,000 die of famine. France tries really hard to directly control colonies: stymies local govt growth and independent states, flares up local sectarian differences. France has long-standing connections to local christian communities: france"s patronage of christians in middle east goes back to maronite christians. Balance british imperial power: there is a sense of imperial rivalry, controlling the levant goes back to crusades ideaology. Policy of divide and rule: turning local groups against each other to better control. Maronite homeland includes various other religious communities: maronite areas in lebanon attached with other communities because a maronite. Lebanon was not economically viable: the result was a highly diverse lebanese state, lebanon seen as a christian homeland in the middle east, no majoritarian sect in the lebanese state down to today.
