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Author Khater, Akram Fouad, 1960-

Title Inventing home : emigration, gender, and the middle class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 / Akram Fouad Khater
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages) : illustrations
Series Online access: California Digital Library UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 (Open Access)
Contents A Departure from the Ordinary -- Factory Girls -- Emigration -- The Mahjar -- Back to the Mountain -- A Woman's Boundaries
Summary 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 Home delves 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 class. Exploring new areas in the history of Lebanon, Inventing Home asks how new notions of gender, family, and class were articulated and how a local "modernity" was invented in the process. Akram Khater maps the jagged and uncertain paths that the fellahin from Mount Lebanon carved through time and space in their attempt to control their future and their destinies. His study offers a significant contribution to the literature on the Middle East, as well as a new perspective on women and on gender issues in the context of developing modernity in the region
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Lebanese -- United States -- History
Return migration -- Lebanon -- History
Sex role -- Lebanon -- History
Middle class -- Lebanon -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes.
Emigration and immigration
Lebanese
Middle class
Return migration
Sex role
Auswanderung
Emigratie.
Culturele identiteit.
Geschichte 1870-1920.
SUBJECT Lebanon -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Subject Lebanon
United States
Libanon
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520935686
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