Reaction of a peripheral region to economic changes the case of the Mutasarrifyya of Mount-Lebanon, 1880-1914 - by Hisham Ghassan Tohme

Abstract

This thesis examines the reaction of the economy of Mount-Lebanon to a crisis wh ich hit the silk production sector at the end of the nineteenth century. After a brief introduction in chapter I, where the problem at hand is presented, chapter II argues th