Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Abbreviations xv
Of Names and Words: A Note on Trasliteration and Nomenclature xvii
Introduction: Moving Peoples, Entangled Histories 1
Part 1 Roots and Routes
1 A Tale of Two Mountains 23
2 Roots and Routes: The Paths of Lebanese Migration 47
Part 2 Words and Laws
3 Fears of a 'Syrian Guinea': Commerce, Contagion and Race in French West Africa, 1898-1914 77
4 Failing to Stem the Tide: Lebanese Migration and the Competing Prerogatives of the Imperical State 99
Part 3 Days, Thoughts and Things
5 Merchants and Magples: The Trading Lives of Eastern Mediterranean Migrants 123
6 Here, There and Everywhere: The Lives of Lebanese Migrants in AOF 151
7 The Ties that Bind: Diasporic Political Culture in AOF 191
8 Coda: The Making of Postcolonial Selves 225
Notes 257
Bibliography 305
Index 331