The Social Origins of Popular Nationalism in Syria

Evidence for a New Framework

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8966965
AutoresJames L Gelvin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, autor correspondente)
Ano1994
Volume26
Fascículo4
Páginas645-661
Data de publicação1994-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743800061158
OpenAlexW2051711722
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas29

In his Interpreting the French Revolution , François Furet defines political sociability as the “specific mode of organizing the relations between citizens (or subjects) and power, as well as among citizens (or subjects) themselves in relation to power.” According to Furet, shifts from one form of political sociability to another can and do take place, particularly during periods of comprehensive economic, political, and social change. One such period preceded the events of 1789 when, as an unintended consequence of state building and economic development under the ancien régime, a democratic/horizontal political sociability increasingly replaced the hierarchic/ vertical political sociability that had previously ordered French society

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