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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790059303321

Autore

Clancy-Smith Julia Ann

Titolo

Mediterraneans [[electronic resource] ] : North Africa and Europe in an age of migration, c. 1800-1900 / / Julia A. Clancy-Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011

ISBN

0-520-94774-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (469 p.)

Collana

The California world history library ; ; 15

Disciplina

304.8/611

Soggetti

Europeans - Tunisia - Tunis - History - 19th century

North Africans - Tunisia - Tunis - History - 19th century

Immigrants - Tunisia - Tunis - History - 19th century

Tunis (Tunisia) History 19th century

Algeria History 19th century

Europe Emigration and immigration History 19th century

Africa, North Relations Europe

Europe Relations Africa, North

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-432) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Peoplings -- 1. Arrival: Tunis the "Well-Protected" -- 2. Detours: Migrations in a Mobile World -- 3. Making a Living: Domestic Service and Other Forms of Employment -- 4. Making a Living: Petty Commerce, Places of Sociability, and the Down-and-Out -- 5.Making a Living: The Sea, Contraband, and Other Illicit Activities -- 6. From Protection to Protectorate: Justice, Order, and Legal Pluralism -- 7. Muslim Princes and Trans-Mediterranean Missionaries -- 8. Where Elites Meet: Households, Harim Visits, and Sea Bathing -- 9. Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi and a Mediterranean Community of Thought -- Epilogue: Fetched Up on the Maghrib's Shores -- Notes -- Glossary -- Select Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Today labor migrants mostly move south to north across the Mediterranean. Yet in the nineteenth century thousands of Europeans and others moved south to North Africa, Egypt, and the Levant. This study of a dynamic borderland, the Tunis region, offers the fullest



picture to date of the Mediterranean before, and during, French colonialism. In a vibrant examination of people in motion, Julia A. Clancy-Smith tells the story of countless migrants, travelers, and adventurers who traversed the Mediterranean, changing it forever. Who were they? Why did they leave home? What awaited them in North Africa? And most importantly, how did an Arab-Muslim state and society make room for the newcomers? Combining fleeting facts, tales of success and failure, and vivid cameos, the book gives a groundbreaking view of one of the principal ways that the Mediterranean became modern.