Inventing Home Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870-1920

Name: Inventing Home Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870-1920
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ISBN: 9780520227408

ISBN-10: 0520227409

ISBN-13: 9780520227408

Edition: 2002

Authors: Akram Fouad Khater

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Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these villagers from the ranks of the peasantry into a middle class of their own making. Inventing Homedelves into the stories of these travels, shedding much needed light on the impact of emigration and immigration in the development of modernity. It focuses on a critical period in the social history of Lebanon--the "long peace" between the uprising of 1860 and the beginning of the French mandate in 1920. The book explores in depth the phenomena of return emigration, the questioning and changing of gender roles, and the rise of the middle…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/30/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.94" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.836



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments



A Departure from the Ordinary



Factory Girls



Emigration



The Mahjar



Back to the Mountain



A Woman's Boundaries



Epilogue: The Making of a Middle Class


Notes


Bibliography


Index