James A. Reilly is Professor Emeritus of modern Middle East history at the University of Toronto (Canada).
This article first appeared in Comparativ Vol. 30 No. 3/4.
Colonialism (en), Empire (en), History (en), Imperialism (en), Ottoman Empire (en), SWANA (en), Syria (en)
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