Inventing home: emigration, gender, and the middle class in Lebanon, 1870-1920

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Inventing Home Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, by Akram Fouad Khater (Author); October ; First Edition; Paperback. bahana-line.com: Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, (): Akram Fouad Khater: Books.

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This article is also available for rental through DeepDyve. Email alerts New issue alert. Receive exclusive offers and updates from Oxford Academic. Related articles in Google Scholar. He argues that they found some success in these endeavors, citing evidence that suggests their increased importance in public rituals and as members of the community.

While field specialists might have minor qualms with various aspects of his work, the average scholar should have no serious problems with this text and may even find it an enjoyable read, as his style is casual and lucid.

While I would not go quite as far as to claim that it would be of interest or value to a casual reader, overall Inventing Home is a solid work with substantial academic merit and is crucial reading for anyone who engages with the topics covered in the book, although it would be a worthwhile read for any scholar of the late Ottoman era. Jul 09, Justin Dell rated it really liked it Shelves: This is a very perspicuous, thoughtful, well-ordered monograph.

Khater does a remarkable job of showing just how "modernity" was articulated in Lebanon at the turn of the twentieth century by focusing on how emigrants from the Mountain - who sojourned in the United States for a time, only to return years later to their homeland - redefined notions of class, family and gender through a hybrid of influences stemming from their Lebanese peasant roots and the influences of WASP America that they had This is a very perspicuous, thoughtful, well-ordered monograph.

Khater does a remarkable job of showing just how "modernity" was articulated in Lebanon at the turn of the twentieth century by focusing on how emigrants from the Mountain - who sojourned in the United States for a time, only to return years later to their homeland - redefined notions of class, family and gender through a hybrid of influences stemming from their Lebanese peasant roots and the influences of WASP America that they had picked up over the course of their stay in the United States. It has to be appreciated for its own uniqueness.

Throughout the text, Khater skillfully educes the multiplicity of social and economic contradictions that were engendered in the metamorphosis of the Lebanese peasant class into the middle class — and they are too many to enumerate! Ziad rated it it was amazing Jan 13, Gabriella rated it liked it Mar 24, Sumeyya rated it it was amazing Jan 20, Nancy rated it it was amazing Sep 17, Amber-Laine rated it it was amazing Jan 10, Jon rated it really liked it Dec 17, Leah rated it liked it Jan 03, Evans rated it it was amazing Dec 03, Mikhail rated it liked it Jan 05, Diana Fonner rated it it was amazing Sep 20, Blake Wehlage rated it it was amazing Mar 31, Tugce rated it it was amazing Jun 29, Elcin Arabaci rated it it was amazing Dec 24, Trevor rated it really liked it Mar 30, Kara rated it really liked it Apr 07, Cathy rated it liked it Jun 27, Natalie Khazzaka rated it it was amazing Feb 13, Fadi rated it it was amazing May 12, Madeleine Kiuttu marked it as to-read Jan 25, Shirley marked it as to-read Apr 01, Korri marked it as to-read Apr 27, Shane added it Dec 25, Helene added it May 19, Hani marked it as to-read Jul 28,