Inventing Home

Inventing Home
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9780520227408
ISBN-13 : 0520227409
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Book Synopsis Inventing Home by : Akram Fouad Khater

Download or read book Inventing Home written by Akram Fouad Khater and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-10-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social history of Lebanon during a critical period--the "long peace" between the uprising of 1860 and the beginning of the French Mandate in 1920. This is one of the few books on modern Middle Eastern history to take up issues of gender, migration, and economic change.


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