{"product_id":"inventing-home-9780520227408","title":"Inventing Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An easily readable and entertaining tale that will fascinate and delight not only Lebanese and other Middle Eastern immigrants to \u003ci\u003eAmrika\u003c\/i\u003e, but emigrants and immi grants anywhere, and most certainly students of migration.\" * International Migration Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eInventing Home\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402814300503,"sku":"9780520227408","price":26.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520227408.jpg?v=1730481582","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/inventing-home-9780520227408","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}