| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 341 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : moving peoples, entangled histories -- A tale of two mountains -- Roots and routes : the paths of Lebanese migration -- Fears of a 'Syrian Guinea' : commerce, contagion and race in French West Africa, 1898-1914 -- Failing to stem the tide : Lebanese migration and the competing prerogatives of the imperial state -- Merchants and magpies : the trading lives of eastern Mediterranean migrants -- Here, there and everywhere : the lives of Lebanese migrants in AOF -- The ties that bind : diasporic political culture in AOF -- Coda : the making of postcolonial selves |
| Summary |
This work is the first comprehensive history of the Lebanese migrant communities of colonial French West Africa, a vast expanse covering present-day Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Guinea, Benin and Mauritania. While others have concentrated on these migrants' role in the colonial economy, this work reconstructs not just their commercial undertakings and strategies, but also their everyday practices, understandings of place and kin, and political thoughts and sentiments. In doing so, it makes the case for a new understanding of diasporic life |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-330) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Lebanese -- Africa, West -- History
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Lebanese -- Africa, West -- Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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French colonies
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Lebanese
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Lebanese -- Social conditions
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Race relations
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Libanesischer Einwanderer
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| SUBJECT |
France -- Colonies -- Africa -- History
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France -- Colonies -- Africa -- Race relations
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| Subject |
Africa
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West Africa
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Französisch-Westafrika
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190257170 |
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0190257172 |
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