Street politics in Damascus: Kinship and other social categories as bases of political action, 1830-1841

History of the Family

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 108-125

  Büssow, Johann ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

19th century; Arabic chronicles; Conceptual history; Damascus; Kinship; Popular politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957620872     PISSN: 1081602X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hisfam.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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