PART ONE 6
Ⅰ．THE HISTORY OF SYRIA 6
Ⅱ．THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE PEACE SETTLEMENT 41
PART TWO 59
Ⅲ．THE PROBLEM OF WESTERNIZATION 59
Ⅳ．THE WESTERNIZATION OF IDEAS 73
Ⅴ．THE WESTERNIZATION OF SOCIETY 85
Ⅵ．ARAB NATIONALISM 96
Ⅶ．LEBANON AND THE MINORITIES 121
Ⅷ．FOREIGN INTERESTS 146
PART THREE 163
Ⅸ．THE FRENCH MANDATE 163
Ⅹ．POLITICAL HISTORY,1920-1936 180
Ⅺ．THE TREATIES,1936-1939 199
Ⅻ．THE SECOND WORLD WAR,1939-1943 230
PART FOUR 259
ⅩⅢ．CONCLUSIONS 259
POSTSCRIPT 279
THE EVENTS OF OCTOBER,1943,TO APRIL,1945 279
APPENDIX A:TEXTS OF DOCUMENTS 308
APPENDIX B:RECENT STATISTICS OF THE POPULATION OF SYRIA AND LEBANON 385
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 387
INDEX 391
MAPS 7
Ⅰ．THE NEAR EAST:GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS 7
Ⅱ．THE SYKES-PICOT AGREEMENT AND THE MANDATED TERRITORIES 45
Ⅲ．LEBANON 131
Ⅳ．THE SYRIAN CAMPAIGN OF 1941 239
Ⅴ．SYRIA AND LEBANON following 390