Resurrecting the Past by Sarah Griswold HARDBACK 9781501783326

Name: Resurrecting the Past by Sarah Griswold HARDBACK 9781501783326
Brand: Cornell University Press

Cornell University Press

Resurrecting the PastFrance's Forgotten Heritage Mandate\nAuthor(s): Sarah Griswold\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501783326, 978-1501783326\nSynopsis\nIn Resurrecting the Past, Sarah Griswold shows how the Levant became a crucial front in a post-1918 fight over the French pasta contingent and contradictory but always hard-charging struggle over a forgotten \""heritage mandate.\"" Many scholars, clergy, pundits, politicians, and investors perceived the moment Allied forces entered Jerusalem in December 1917 to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to expand French influence, evoking the vision of a new colony in the territory: a French Levant. But what transpired for the French state in the Levant after World War I, and why does that ill-conceived venture still matter today?\n\nResurrecting the Past investigates how heritage politics led to a new form of empire a French mandate for Syria and Lebanon ""