TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oualdi,M'hamed
TI  - A slave between empires: a transimperial history of North Africa 
SN  - 9780231549554
AV  - DT204 .O93 2020eb
U1  - 961 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Ḥusayn,
KW  - HISTORY / Africa / North
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire
KW  - Civilization
KW  - fast
KW  - Colonization
KW  - Decedents' estates
KW  - Employees
KW  - International relations
KW  - Africa, North
KW  - History
KW  - 1517-1882
KW  - 1882-
KW  - Tunisia
KW  - Officials and employees
KW  - Biography
KW  - Relations
KW  - Europe
KW  - Mediterranean Region
KW  - Afrique du Nord
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Tunisie
KW  - Colonisation
KW  - Méditerranée, Région de la
KW  - Civilisation
KW  - North Africa
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Biographies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; A North African Land and Its Ottoman and colonial legacy -- Husayn : an Ottoman reformer and a product of Ottoman reforms -- Husayn's wealth : how to build and protect an estate between empires -- A world of "affairs" : litigation as a tool for negotiation -- The conflicts over Husayn's estate : Ottoman and Italian interventions -- Sovereigns, mothers, and creditors : The agency of Husayn's potential heirs -- Husayn's legacies in colonial Tunisia : an epilogue -- Conclusion : local and imperial histories of the Maghreb
N2  - "In June 1887, a man known as General Husayn, a manumitted slave turned dignitary in the Ottoman province of Tunis, passed away in Florence after a life crossing empires. As a youth, Husayn was brought from Circassia to Turkey, where he was sold as a slave. In Tunis, he ascended to the rank of general before French conquest forced his exile to the northern shores of the Mediterranean. His death was followed by wrangling over his estate that spanned a surprising array of actors: Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II and his viziers; the Tunisian, French, and Italian governments; and representatives of Muslim and Jewish diasporic communities. A Slave Between Empires investigates Husayn's transimperial life and the posthumous battle over his fortune to recover the transnational dimensions of North African history. M'hamed Oualdi places Husayn within the international context of the struggle between Ottoman and French forces for control of the Mediterranean amid social and intellectual ferment that crossed empires. Oualdi considers this part of the world not as a colonial borderland but as a central space where overlapping imperial ambitions transformed dynamic societies. He explores how the transition between Ottoman rule and European colonial domination was felt in the daily lives of North African Muslims, Christians, and Jews and how North Africans conceived of and acted upon this shift. Drawing on a wide range of Arabic, French, Italian, and English sources, A Slave Between Empires is a groundbreaking transimperial microhistory that demands a major analytical shift in the conceptualization of North African history"--
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