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The State of Lebanon Gordon G. Chang Can the public monitor theLebanon gained its formal political independence in 1943. During the dozen years that followed, women and men across class, sectarian, geographic, and ideological divides built, challenged, and reformed the institutional arrangements that would shape the country. With this book, Ziad Abu Rish traces shifting patterns of alliances and conflict that shaped the material and representational production of the Lebanese nation state. Exploring labor