@article{2015,title={THE INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS AND FORMATION OF NATIONALISM IN LEBANON},abstractNode={Throughout history, civilizations and which is the center of cultural exchange, is the gateway civilizations and cultures of the middle east, which, in every period of history has been the scene of the period of the dominant powers of the competition. Especially in the nineteenth century the european powers, heavily economic, cultural and political terms they showed in a massive presence. At this stage of the historical and social process of europe, the european states, the ideology of nationalism, when they go overseas to places beyond search to the pursuit of the colonial and continental had shifted. This first of convection, had shown itself in economic activities. Especially napoleon invaded egypt, and parallel trade in the eastern mediterranean that occur in the lock position of which is concentrated in the industrial age brought to lebanon and developed centres of trade in the state. The laboratory of the middle east who acts as a kind of a tremendous cultural and religious},author={MEHMET ÇELİK},year={2015},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}