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.
Between Colonialism and Diaspora
Title | Between Colonialism and Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Ballantyne |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2006-08-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780822338246 |
A bold historical reevaluation of constructions of Sikh identity from the late eighteenth century through the early twenty-first.
Forging Diaspora
Title | Forging Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Andre Guridy |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807833614 |
Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a unique relationship between Afro-descended populations in the two countries. In Forging Diaspora, Frank
Community, Empire and Migration
Title | Community, Empire and Migration PDF eBook |
Author | Crispin Bates |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2016-03-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0333977297 |
South Asians in Diaspora is a collection of essays concerning the history, politics, and anthropology of migration in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, as well as in the numerous overseas locations, such as Fiji, Africa, the Caribbean and USA, where South Asians migrated in the colonial period and after. It addresses the connections between migration, problems of identity and ethnic conflict from a comparative perspective, and highlights the role of shared colonial experiences in providing 'communal' solidarities and discord.
Diasporas of the Modern Middle East
Title | Diasporas of the Modern Middle East PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Gorman |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 561 |
Release | 2015-05-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0748686134 |
Approaching the Middle East through the lens of Diaspora Studies, the 11 detailed case studies in this volume explore the experiences of different diasporic groups in and of the region, and look at the changing conceptions and practice of diaspora in the
Between Empire and Diaspora
Title | Between Empire and Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Safaa Abdulrahim |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Studies on the Internal Diaspora of the Byzantine Empire
Title | Studies on the Internal Diaspora of the Byzantine Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Hélène Ahrweiler |
Publisher | Dumbarton Oaks |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780884022473 |
The successful coexistence of different ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups within the same political boundaries depends in part on the resolution of the tension between uniformity and separateness. This volume reviews sources of tension and their resolution in a number of cases that may be considered paradigmatic and which include nomads and Muslims, the Serbs, the Armenians, and the population of Byzantine Italy. The mechanisms of integration or acculturation and their various degrees of success are investigated - as are the responses of different groups - in an effort to present some of the complexities of this society, rich in its diversity and impressive in its unicity.