Street violence and social imagination in Late-Mamluk and Ottoman Damascus (CA. 1500-1800)

International Journal of Middle East Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 215-236

  Grehan, James ^a  

^a WHITMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; POPULAR PROTEST; VIOLENCE;

SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

EID: 0038353466     PISSN: 00207438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0020743803000096     Document Type: Article

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