Stacy D Fahrenthold

Between the Ottomans and the Entente

The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925

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Produktbeschreibung

Between the Ottomans and the Entente presents a social history of World War I in the Syrian and Lebanese diaspora in North and South America. Working from the passports, petitions, and propaganda written by migrant activists, it documents Ottoman and French imperial projects to claim Syrian migrants for state-building and highlights nationalist resistance from abroad.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780197565728
• ISBN-10: 0197565727
• Artikelnr.: 60368778

Autorenporträt

Stacy D. Fahrenthold is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Davis.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* A Note on Transliteration
* Abbreviations, Dramatis Personae, and Key Terms
* Introduction: Between the Ottomans and the Entente
* Chapter 1: Mashriq and Mahjar: A Global History of Syrian Migration
to the Americas
* Chapter 2: The Mahjar of the Young Turks, 1908-1916
* Chapter 3: Former Ottomans in the Ranks: Pro-Entente Military
Recruitment in the Syrian Mahjar, 1916-1918
* Chapter 4: New Syrians Abroad: An Émigré Project for a United States
Mandate in Syria, 1918-1920
* Chapter 5: Travelling Syrians, Immovable Turks: Passport Fraud and
Migrant Smuggling at the Close of Empire, 1918-1920
* Chapter 6: Mandating the Mahjar: the French Mandate and Greater
Lebanon's Census of 1921
* Conclusion
* Notes
* Index