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Inventing home : emigration, gender, and the middle class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 / Akram Fouad Khater.
Loaned to Another Library JV8748 .K53 2001
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Khater, Akram Fouad, 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle class.
- History.
- Sex role.
- Return migration.
- Lebanese.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Lebanon--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Lebanon.
- Lebanese--United States--History.
- Return migration--Lebanon--History.
- Sex role--Lebanon--History.
- Middle class--Lebanon--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 257 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- A social history of Lebanon during a critical period--the "long peace" between the uprising of 1860 and the beginning of the French Mandate in 1920. This is one of the few books on modern Middle Eastern history to take up issues of gender, migration, and economic change.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520227395
- 0520227409
- OCLC:
- 45008545
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