Inventing home : emigration, gender, and the middle class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 /
Khater, Akram Fouad, 1960-
Inventing home : emigration, gender, and the middle class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 / Akram Fouad Khater. - Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001. - 1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages) : illustrations - Online access: California Digital Library UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 (Open Access) .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A Departure from the Ordinary -- Factory Girls -- Emigration -- The Mahjar -- Back to the Mountain -- A Woman's Boundaries.
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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.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
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
9780520935686 (electronic bk.) 0520935683 (electronic bk.) 0585389160 (electronic bk.) 9780585389165 (electronic bk.) 9780520227392 0520227395 0520227409 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9780520227408 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 1597346845 9781597346849
9780520227392
00027125
Lebanese--History.--United States
Return migration--History.--Lebanon
Sex role--History.--Lebanon
Middle class--History.--Lebanon
Migration de retour--Histoire.--Liban
Rôle selon le sexe--Histoire.--Liban
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Social Classes.
Emigration and immigration.
Lebanese.
Middle class.
Return migration.
Sex role.
Auswanderung
Emigratie.
Culturele identiteit.
Geschichte 1870-1920.
Lebanon--Emigration and immigration--History.
Lebanon.
United States.
Libanon
USA.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
JV8748 / .K53 2001eb
305.5/965692/09034
Inventing home : emigration, gender, and the middle class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 / Akram Fouad Khater. - Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001. - 1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages) : illustrations - Online access: California Digital Library UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 (Open Access) .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A Departure from the Ordinary -- Factory Girls -- Emigration -- The Mahjar -- Back to the Mountain -- A Woman's Boundaries.
Use copy
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.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
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
9780520935686 (electronic bk.) 0520935683 (electronic bk.) 0585389160 (electronic bk.) 9780585389165 (electronic bk.) 9780520227392 0520227395 0520227409 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9780520227408 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 1597346845 9781597346849
9780520227392
00027125
Lebanese--History.--United States
Return migration--History.--Lebanon
Sex role--History.--Lebanon
Middle class--History.--Lebanon
Migration de retour--Histoire.--Liban
Rôle selon le sexe--Histoire.--Liban
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Social Classes.
Emigration and immigration.
Lebanese.
Middle class.
Return migration.
Sex role.
Auswanderung
Emigratie.
Culturele identiteit.
Geschichte 1870-1920.
Lebanon--Emigration and immigration--History.
Lebanon.
United States.
Libanon
USA.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
JV8748 / .K53 2001eb
305.5/965692/09034