TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andrew Arsan
TI  - Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa
SN  - 9781849042970
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Hurst & Company
KW  - Lebanese community
KW  - West Africa
KW  - History
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - France
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Race relations
N1  - 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
ER  -