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This is the second updated edition of the first comprehensive history of Lebanon in the modern period. Written by a leading Lebanese scholar, and based on previously inaccessible archives, it is a fascinating and beautifully-written account of one of the world's most fabled countries. Starting with the formation of Ottoman Lebanon in the 16th century, Traboulsi covers the growth of Beirut as a capital for trade and culture through the 19th century. The main part of the book concentrates on Lebanon's development in the 20th century and the conflicts that led up to the major wars in the 1970s and 1980s. This edition contains a new chapter and updates throughout the text. This is a rich history of Lebanon that brings to life its politics, its people and the crucial role that it has always played in world affairs.

This is the second updated edition of the first comprehensive history of Lebanon in the modern period. Written by a leading Lebanese scholar, and based on previously inaccessible archives, it is a fascinating and beautifully-written account of one of the world's most fabled countries. Starting with the formation of Ottoman Lebanon in the 16th century, Traboulsi covers the growth of Beirut as a capital for trade and culture through the 19th century. The main part of the book concentrates on Lebanon's development in the 20th century and the conflicts that led up to the major wars in the 1970s and 1980s. This edition contains a new chapter and updates throughout the text. This is a rich history of Lebanon that brings to life its politics, its people and the crucial role that it has always played in world affairs.

Cover -- Volume 01 -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Phenomena and Phenomenalism -- (i): Prichard's theory -- (ii): Literal construction -- (iii): The first edition Deduction and phenomenalism -- Chapter 2: Noumena and Noumenalism -- Chapter 3: Transcendental and Empirical -- (i): The distinction in general -- (ii): The Fourth Paralogism (A) -- (iii): The Aesthetic -- Chapter 4: Sensibility and Understanding -- (i): Data of sense and phenomenal objects -- (ii): The 'representation' problem for categories -- Chapter 5: Intelligible Objects -- (i): The occasions of misuse -- (ii): Concepts and objects -- (iii): The 'object of representations' -- Chapter 6: The Transcendental Analytic -- Chapter 7: Categories and Judgments -- (i): Analysis and synthesis -- (ii): Concepts and judgments -- Chapter 8: The Transcendental Deduction -- (i): Introduction -- (ii): Apperception -- (iii): Apperception, categories, and objective validity -- Chapter 9: The Transcendental Deduction (Continued) -- (i): Language and experience -- (ii): Categories and personality -- (iii): Transcendental distinctions and empirical illustrations -- Chapter 10: The First and Second Analogies -- (i): The Analogies -- Chapter 11: Personality -- (i): Inner sense and apperception -- (ii): Categories and persons -- (iii): Kant and Strawson -- Chapter 12: The Transition to Moral Philosophy -- (i): Causality and freedom -- (ii): Kant's solution of the Third Antinomy -- List of Books -- Index -- Volume 02 -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter I: The Critique of Pure Reason -- Chapter II: The Critique of Practical Reason.

Cover -- Volume 01 -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Preface to the Garland Edition -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part One: The Doctrine of Abstraction and Withdrawal from the Senses -- Chapter 1: Introductory Remarks -- Chapter 2: Sensory Foundations -- Chapter 3: High Scholastic Teaching on Cognition -- Chapter 4: Sensory Foundations Reconsidered -- Chapter 5: The Dreaming Hypothesis -- Chapter 6: The Analogy with Painting -- Chapter 7: The Ground of the Intelligibility of the Dreaming Hypothesis -- Chapter 8: The Evil Genius Hypothesis -- Chapter 9: The Evil Genius Hypothesis and the Doctrine of the Creation of Eternal Truths -- Chapter 10: Cartesian Foundations -- Part Two: A Mind Better Known than Body -- Chapter 1: Introductory Remarks -- Chapter 2: High Scholastic Teaching on How the Soul Knows Itself -- Chapter 3: Beginning the Second Meditation -- Chapter 4: The Cogito -- Chapter 5: Essence -- Chapter 6: The Imagination's Role in Knowledge of the Mind -- Chapter 7: Powers and Acts -- Chapter 8: The Specific Nature of the Understanding -- Chapter 9: Mind and Body -- Bibliography -- Volume 02 -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter I: The Heritage of Descartes -- Chapter II: The Mission of Descartes -- Chapter III: Cogito, Ergo Sum -- Chapter IV: The Existence of God -- Chapter V: The Nature of Scientific Knowledge -- Chapter VI: The Objects of Scientific Knowledge -- Chapter VII: The Problem of Perception -- Chapter VIII: The Attributes of God -- Chapter IX: The Vindication of Human Knowledge -- Chapter X: Free-Will and the Moral Life -- Index -- Volume 03 -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page.

Cover -- Volume 01 -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Using the Past: Nursing and the Medical Profession in Ancient Greece -- Chapter 2: The Doctor's Assistant: Nursing in Ancient Indian Medical Texts -- Chapter 3: Social Change in the Nursing Profession in India -- Chapter 4: Nursing in Japan -- Chapter 5: Colonial Sisters: Nurses in Uganda -- Chapter 6: A Ward of My Own: Social Organisation and Identity among Hospital Domestics -- Chapter 7: Nurse or Woman: Gender and Professionalism in Reformed Nursing 1860‒1923 -- Chapter 8: Human Abuse and Nursing's Response -- Chapter 9: Gender, Role, and Sickness: The Ritual Psychopathologies of the Nurse -- Chapter 10: Care and Ambiguity: Towards a Concept of Nursing -- Chapter 11: Nurses between Disease and Illness -- Bibliography -- Name index -- Subject index -- Volume 02 -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The artisan of knowledge -- Chapter 2: The confessions of Lévi-Strauss -- Chapter 3: Nature, art, and authenticity -- Chapter 4: Echoes of Rousseau -- Chapter 5: The critique of cultural evolution -- Chapter 6: Out of history -- Chapter 7: The semantics of ethnocentrism -- Chapter 8: A universe of rules -- Chapter 9: The anthropology of ressentiment -- Notes -- General bibliography -- Index -- Volume 03 -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the English edition -- Part I: Particularity, Individuality, Society, Species-Essentiality -- Chapter 1: The abstract concept of 'everyday life'.