Interlopers of Empire:
Andrew Arsan
Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa - xviii, 341 p., 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-330) and index.
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.
9781849042970
Lebanese community--History--West Africa
Lebanese community--Social conditions--West Africa
France--Colonies--History--West Africa
France--Colonies--Race relations--West Africa
Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa - xviii, 341 p., 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-330) and index.
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.
9781849042970
Lebanese community--History--West Africa
Lebanese community--Social conditions--West Africa
France--Colonies--History--West Africa
France--Colonies--Race relations--West Africa