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Author:

Arsan, Andrew, author.

Title:

Interlopers of empire : the Lebanese diaspora in colonial French West Africa / Andrew Arsan.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xviii, 341 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Lebanese--Africa, West--History.
Lebanese--Africa, West--Social conditions.
France--History.--Africa, West--History.
France--Race relations.--Africa, West--Race relations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-330) and index.

Contents:

Coda : the making of postcolonial selves. 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.

ISBN:

0199333386 (alk. paper)
9780199333387 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)871820627

LCCN:

2014005207

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)