TY - BOOK AU - Philip K.Hitti TI - History of Syria: Including Lebanon and Palestine SN - 1593331193 PY - 1951/// CY - UK PB - The Macmillan Publishing Company Inc. KW - English KW - General N1 - "Facsimile reprint of the original edition published by the Macmillan Company, NY, 1951"--Title page verso N2 - "Hitti's History of Syria, Including Lebanon and Palestine is a brilliant history of a land into which more historical and cultural events were crowded than any area of equal size. Syria which first saw the dawn of continuous history, has either invented or transmitted to mankind such benefits as monotheistic religion, philosophy, law, trade, agriculture, and our alphabet."-- ER -