Inventing home: emigration, gender, and the middle class in lebanon, 1870-1920
Auteur :
Khater, Akram Fouad
Éditeur :
University of California Press
ISBN :
9780520227408
Date de publication :
30 oct. 2001
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,8 cm
Poids :
363 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.