Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-212).

The lord of the land : Amir Fakhr al-Din al-Mani II and the Druze revolt -- The Shihabi Amirate (Emirate) I : neutrality in the era of Napoleon and Ahmed al-Jazzar Pahsa -- The Shihabi Amirate (Emirate) II : Lebanon and the Egyptian invasion -- The Maronite establishment : independence and the Maronite church -- The Maronite insurrection in Mount Lebanon (1841; 1845) : the struggle to secure independence -- The Maronite-Druze civil war of 1860 : a decade of conflict as the Ottoman Empire attempted to reintegrate Lebanon tightly into the Porte's embrace -- The Mutasarrifiyah of Jabal Lubnan : the Arab world's first representative government -- Under French rule : the interwar years and the origins of political modernization -- Independent Lebanon : confessional democracy and political tensions -- The war years (1975-1985) -- Post war Lebanon (1985-1996) -- The contemporary scene (1997-2007).