Interlopers Of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora In Colonial French West Africa

This work is the first comprehensive history of the Lebanese migrant communities of colonial French West Africa, a vast expanse covering present-day Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Guinea, Benin and Mauritania. While others have concentrated on these migrants' role in the colonial economy, this work reconstructs not just their commercial undertakings and strategies, but also their everyday practices, understandings of place and kin, and political thoughts and sentiments. In doing so, it makes the case for a new understanding of diasporic life

• | Author: Andrew Arsan
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 01, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 420 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0199333386
• | ISBN-13: 9780199333387