Learning Lebanese : a study of children and childhood, 1918-1943

النوع : Mémoire

Through a study of childhood and its conceptual formulation in mandatory Lebanon , this dissertation explores how some of the colonial state's youngest citizens were actually a fundamental - and often overlooked - part of the emerging nation 's social fabric. As some of society's most vulnerable and easily influenced, L ebanese children became a primary site for critical debates between Lebanese cit izens and the colonial state over power and identity. The details and effects o f this debate are explored in this dissertation through a study of the home and its anxieties, the educational system and its reforms, and the familial language of colonialism