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

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

by Akram Fouad Khater (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 295
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 24 Oct 2001

ISBN 10: 0520227409
ISBN 13: 9780520227408