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David Gilmour, Lebanon: The Fractured Country (Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1983). Pp. 226. - Michael Jansen, The Battle of Beirut: Why Israel Invaded Lebanon (Boston: South End Press, 1984). Pp. 142.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Hani Faris
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia

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1 The following statements illustrate the point: “Building… like nearly everything else in Lebanon …depended almost exclusively on the profit motive.”Google Scholar David Gilmour, ibid., p. 9. “Everything depended on profits,” ibid., p. 12. “Primitive nature of the country,” ibid., p. 13. “Most of the country remained socially and politically backward,” ibid.

2 In the new U.S. edition of Gilmour's book, the author's concluding chapter is revised to take these remarks into consideration.