Description
Book SynopsisBetween 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.
Trade Review"An easily readable and entertaining tale that will fascinate and delight not only Lebanese and other Middle Eastern immigrants to
Amrika, but emigrants and immi grants anywhere, and most certainly students of migration." * International Migration Review *
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Inventing Home would be a worthwhile addition both to a university research library and to the personal libraries of those specializing in the history of Lebanon and of the Lebanese diaspora. . . . well written and its scholarship is thorough." * Middle East Journal *
"Akram Fouad Khater breaks new ground in Lebanese history by locating it within a broader, transregional literature on modernity, class formation, and gender." * American Historical Review *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. A Departure from the Ordinary 2. Factory Girls 3. Emigration 4. The Mahjar 5. Back to the Mountain 6. A Woman's Boundaries 7. Epilogue: The Making of a Middle Class. Notes Bibliography Index
