@article{ref1,
title="The Nation‐State Form and the Emergence of ‘Minorities' in Syria",
journal="Studies in ethnicity and nationalism",
year="2007",
author="White, Benjamin",
volume="7",
number="1",
pages="64-85",
abstract="Minorities are specifically modern political groupings: they belong to the era of nation-states. This article explores the emergence of minorities in Syria under the French mandate. It examines the contradictions caused by French attempts to impose a religious political order within the secular form of the nation-state, showing how that form created minorities, most of whom cannot simply be mapped onto the millets, or religious communities, of the Ottoman Empire.<p />",
language="",
issn="1473-8481",
doi="10.1111/j.1754-9469.2007.tb00108.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-9469.2007.tb00108.x"
}