Inventing home : emigration, gender, and the middle class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 / Akram Fouad Khater.
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. Inventing Home delves into the stories of these travels, s...
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University of California Press,
©2001.
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| Series: | Online access: California Digital Library UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 (Open Access)
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Table of Contents:
- A Departure from the Ordinary
- Factory Girls
- Emigration
- The Mahjar
- Back to the Mountain
- A Woman's Boundaries.