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

This work is the first comprehensive history of the Lebanese migrant communities of colonial French West Africa, a vast expanse that covered present-day Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Guinea, Benin and Mauritania. Where others have concentrated on the commercial activities of these migrants, cas...

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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.
1. Verfasser:
Arsan, Andrew
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Zusammenfassung:
This work is the first comprehensive history of the Lebanese migrant communities of colonial French West Africa, a vast expanse that covered present-day Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Guinea, Benin and Mauritania. Where others have concentrated on the commercial activities of these migrants, casting them as archetypal middlemen, this work reconstructs not just their economic strategies, but also their social and political lives. Moreover, it examines the fraught responses of colonial Frenchmen to the unsettling presence of these interlopers of empire--responses which, with their echoes of metro
Umfang:
1 online resource (362 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-025745-8
0-19-938820-2
0-19-025717-2
Schlagworte:
Lebanese > Africa, West > History.
Lebanese > Africa, West > Social conditions.
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