The Lebanese immigrants in Ecuador : a history of emerging leadership / Lois J. Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Lois J.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Lebanese--Ecuador--History.

Lebanese.

Immigrants--Ecuador--History.

Immigrants.

History.

Ecuador--History.

Ecuador.

Physical Description:

xii, 243 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Lebanese in Ecuador

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000.

Contents:

1 Lebanese Background 11

The Place 11

From the Ancients to the Ottomans 13

The Ottoman Imarah 15

The Mutasarrifiya 17

World War I and Its Aftermath 18

Migration from the Mountain to Beirut 20

Business Traditions 22

2 Ecuadorean Background 27

The Regions 27

The Colonial Heritage 29

Liberal Politics and Immigrant Lure 31

Guayaquil in the Early Twentieth Century 32

Latin American Foreign Merchants 35

3 Arrival of the First Patriarchs 39

The First to Come 39

Pioneer Patriarchs 47

Culture and Interaction 56

Maintaining a Valued Heritage 62

4 Visibility, Organization, and Leadership 71

The Lebanese Organize 73

Pioneering with Wealth and Economic Opportunity 76

Lutfallah Kozhaya Abi-Hanna 79

Membership and Visibility 82

Pedro Saad: Labor Leader 83

5 Joining Ecuador's Functional Elite 91

Beyond the Store to Diversification 94

The Professions 103

Toward a Third Generation 105

Historical Revisionism and Celebrating Sixty Years 107

6 The Lebanese in Twentieth-Century Quito 117

Centro Cultural Arabe and Social Interchange 123

Diversity After the 1960s 128

7 High Visibility and Imagery 135

The Isaias Empire 135

Prejudice 145

Social and Cultural Contributions 147

Pursuing the Image 149

8 Political Leadership: From Urban to National 155

The Ecuadorean Political Agenda 157

Political Participation 161

Assertive Leaders 163

Assad Bucaram 165

Lebanese Support and the Elite Critique 179

9 Reaching for National Office 185

The Advance into Political Office 186

Populist Politics After Assad 186

Building a Positive Image: The 1992 Elections 190

Abdala Bucaram and Elsa Bucaram Ortiz 193

Mixed Reactions 195

Lebanese Descendants as Ecuador's Presidents 196

Appendix 1 Founding Members of Sociedad Union Libanesa, 1921 211

Appendix 2 Andean Political Participation, 1978-1994 213

Appendix 3 Coastal Political Participation, 1978-1994 215

Appendix 4 Family Trees: Isaias-Barquet and Anton-Diaz 217.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-228) and index.

ISBN:

0813337186

OCLC:

42889751