| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Lebanon -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
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Lebanon. |
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Emigration and immigration. |
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History. |
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Lebanese -- United States -- History.
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Lebanese. |
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United States. |
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Return migration -- Lebanon -- History.
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Return migration. |
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Sex role -- Lebanon -- History.
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Sex role. |
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Middle class -- Lebanon -- History.
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Middle class. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Gender roles. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Khater, Akram Fouad, 1960- Inventing home. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001 0520227395 (DLC) 00046709 (OCoLC)45008545 |
| ISBN |
9780520935686 (electronic book) |
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0520935683 (electronic book) |
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0585389160 (electronic book) |
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9780585389165 (electronic book) |
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9780520227392 |
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0520227395 |
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0520227409 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520227408 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1597346845 |
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9781597346849 |
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