Interlopers of Empire
Title | Interlopers of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Arsan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2014-01-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190257172 |
This work is the first comprehensive history of the Lebanese migrant communities of colonial French West Africa, a vast expanse that covered present-day Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Guinea, Benin and Mauritania. Where others have concentrated on the commercial activities of these migrants, casting them as archetypal middlemen, this work reconstructs not just their economic strategies, but also their social and political lives. Moreover, it examines the fraught responses of colonial Frenchmen to the unsettling presence of these interlopers of empire--responses which, with their echoes of metropolitan racism, helped to shape the ways in which Lebanese migrants represented themselves and justified their place in West Africa. This is a work which attempts not just to reshape broader understandings of diasporic life-of Janus-like existences lived in transit between distant locales, and de- pendent on the constant to-and-fro of people, news, and goods--but also to challenge the way we think about empires, and the relations between their constituent territories and diverse inhabitants.
A Study Guide for H. H. Munro's "The Interlopers"
Title | A Study Guide for H. H. Munro's "The Interlopers" PDF eBook |
Author | Gale, Cengage Learning |
Publisher | Gale, Cengage Learning |
Pages | 23 |
Release | |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1410349764 |
Interlopers of Empire
Title | Interlopers of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Arsan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 2014-01-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190257458 |
This work is the first comprehensive history of the Lebanese migrant communities of colonial French West Africa, a vast expanse that covered present-day Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Guinea, Benin and Mauritania. Where others have concentrated on the commercial activities of these migrants, casting them as archetypal middlemen, this work reconstructs not just their economic strategies, but also their social and political lives. Moreover, it examines the fraught responses of colonial Frenchmen to the unsettling presence of these interlopers of empire--responses which, with their echoes of metropolitan racism, helped to shape the ways in which Lebanese migrants represented themselves and justified their place in West Africa. This is a work which attempts not just to reshape broader understandings of diasporic life-of Janus-like existences lived in transit between distant locales, and de- pendent on the constant to-and-fro of people, news, and goods--but also to challenge the way we think about empires, and the relations between their constituent territories and diverse inhabitants.
Interlopers
Title | Interlopers PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Dean Foster |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2001-05-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101207930 |
Why bad things really happen to good people. Upset stomachs. Nervous breakdowns. The collapse of civilizations. Blame them on a twist of fate, but archaeologist Cody Westcott knows differently. Something is causing these random acts of badness. Something ancient, something evil, something hungry. We are not alone, but we’re about to wish we were. From New York Times Bestselling Author of Jed the Dead.
Colonial Suspects
Title | Colonial Suspects PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Keller |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2018-04-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1496206207 |
A Vietnamese cook, a German journalist, and a Senegalese student—what did they have in common? They were all suspicious persons kept under surveillance by French colonial authorities in West Africa in the 1920s and 1930s. Colonial Suspects looks at the web of surveillance set up by the French government during the twentieth century as France’s empire slipped into crisis. As French West Africa and the French Empire more generally underwent fundamental transformations during the interwar years, French colonial authorities pivoted from a stated policy of “assimilation” to that of “association.” Surveillance of both colonial subjects and visitors traveling through the colonies increased in scope. The effect of this change in policy was profound: a “culture of suspicion” became deeply ingrained in French West African society. Kathleen Keller notes that the surveillance techniques developed over time by the French included “shadowing, postal control, port police, informants, denunciations, home searches, and gossip.” This ad hoc approach to colonial surveillance mostly proved ineffectual, however, and French colonies became transitory spaces where a global cast of characters intermixed and French power remained precarious. Increasingly, French officials—in the colonies and at home—reacted in short-sighted ways as both perceived and real backlash occurred with respect to communism, pan-Africanism, anticolonialism, black radicalism, and pan-Islamism. Focusing primarily on the port city of Dakar (Senegal), Keller unravels the threads of intrigue, rumor, and misdirection that informed this chaotic period of French colonial history.
Empire Unbound
Title | Empire Unbound PDF eBook |
Author | Gavin Murray-Miller |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Africa, North |
ISBN | 0192863118 |
Empire Unbound argues that European empires were not the bounded, stable entities that imperialists imagined. Gavin Murray-Miller demonstrates that the era of 'new imperialism' which arose in the late 19th century fostered connections and synergies between regional powers that influenced the trajectories of imperial states in fundamental ways.
The Interlopers; a Novel
Title | The Interlopers; a Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Griffing Bancroft |
Publisher | Hardpress Publishing |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2012-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781290377324 |
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