Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa
Material type: TextPublisher: London: Hurst & Company, 2014Description: xviii, 341 p., 24 cmISBN:- 9781849042970
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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.
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