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

Khater, Akram Fouad:

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ISBN 10: 0520227409 ISBN 13: 9780520227408

Published by Californaia University Press, 2001

Language: English

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

Publisher

Californaia University Press

Publication Date

2001

Language

English

ISBN 10

0520227409

ISBN 13

9780520227408

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Paperback

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Very Good

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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 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.

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Akram Fouad Khater is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History at North Carolina State University.

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