Beirut on the Bayou : Alfred Nicola, Louisiana, and the making of modern Lebanon / / Raif Shwayri
| Beirut on the Bayou : Alfred Nicola, Louisiana, and the making of modern Lebanon / / Raif Shwayri |
| Autore | Shwayri Raïf |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, New York : , : State University of New York Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.596569209034 |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-4384-6096-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Alfred remembers; 1 Fares Bozeid Moujaes; Of silk and stone; Palace builders; From Beiteddine to Hadath; 2 Habib Fares Shwayri; Rebirth of Beirut; Toward civil war; The failure of the caimaqamat system; 1860, the year of transformations; 3 Nicolas Habib Shwayri; The Organic Statutes; The Administrative Council: Prefiguration of the House of Representatives; To finish with Youssef bey Karam; A bustling but constrained economy; The new imperialisms; Part II: Alfred in Louisiana; 4 From Lebanon to Louisiana; Ellis Island
A forerunner Moujaes: Ann MurraySouth to New Orleans; 5 A peddler on foot; On the bayou; "Up the bayou, down the bayou, across the bayou"; A people of extremes; "Sweet Papa"; 6 A shotgun house, a wagon, and a horse called Mac; Lockport; On war and peace; A peddler by wagon; "I lift my lamp beside the golden door"; Part III: Alfred's legacy; 7 Returning to a country in total upheaval; In his absence: The dismemberment of an empire; Alfred in Hadath: From mandate to independence; 8 On true resilience; Nadim Shwayri; Lily; Shwayr, in a child's memory; A cry in the wilderness 9 A singular message in the face of continuing adversityThe peace of circumstance: And the failed state; The message of Al-Kafaàt; Appendices; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910466145703321 |
Shwayri Raïf
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| Albany, New York : , : State University of New York Press, , 2015 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Beirut on the Bayou : Alfred Nicola, Louisiana, and the making of modern Lebanon / / Raif Shwayri
| Beirut on the Bayou : Alfred Nicola, Louisiana, and the making of modern Lebanon / / Raif Shwayri |
| Autore | Shwayri Raïf |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, New York : , : State University of New York Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.596569209034 |
| ISBN | 1-4384-6096-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Alfred remembers; 1 Fares Bozeid Moujaes; Of silk and stone; Palace builders; From Beiteddine to Hadath; 2 Habib Fares Shwayri; Rebirth of Beirut; Toward civil war; The failure of the caimaqamat system; 1860, the year of transformations; 3 Nicolas Habib Shwayri; The Organic Statutes; The Administrative Council: Prefiguration of the House of Representatives; To finish with Youssef bey Karam; A bustling but constrained economy; The new imperialisms; Part II: Alfred in Louisiana; 4 From Lebanon to Louisiana; Ellis Island
A forerunner Moujaes: Ann MurraySouth to New Orleans; 5 A peddler on foot; On the bayou; "Up the bayou, down the bayou, across the bayou"; A people of extremes; "Sweet Papa"; 6 A shotgun house, a wagon, and a horse called Mac; Lockport; On war and peace; A peddler by wagon; "I lift my lamp beside the golden door"; Part III: Alfred's legacy; 7 Returning to a country in total upheaval; In his absence: The dismemberment of an empire; Alfred in Hadath: From mandate to independence; 8 On true resilience; Nadim Shwayri; Lily; Shwayr, in a child's memory; A cry in the wilderness 9 A singular message in the face of continuing adversityThe peace of circumstance: And the failed state; The message of Al-Kafaàt; Appendices; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798174603321 |
Shwayri Raïf
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| Albany, New York : , : State University of New York Press, , 2015 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Beirut on the Bayou : Alfred Nicola, Louisiana, and the making of modern Lebanon / / Raif Shwayri
| Beirut on the Bayou : Alfred Nicola, Louisiana, and the making of modern Lebanon / / Raif Shwayri |
| Autore | Shwayri Raïf |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, New York : , : State University of New York Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.596569209034 |
| ISBN | 1-4384-6096-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Alfred remembers; 1 Fares Bozeid Moujaes; Of silk and stone; Palace builders; From Beiteddine to Hadath; 2 Habib Fares Shwayri; Rebirth of Beirut; Toward civil war; The failure of the caimaqamat system; 1860, the year of transformations; 3 Nicolas Habib Shwayri; The Organic Statutes; The Administrative Council: Prefiguration of the House of Representatives; To finish with Youssef bey Karam; A bustling but constrained economy; The new imperialisms; Part II: Alfred in Louisiana; 4 From Lebanon to Louisiana; Ellis Island
A forerunner Moujaes: Ann MurraySouth to New Orleans; 5 A peddler on foot; On the bayou; "Up the bayou, down the bayou, across the bayou"; A people of extremes; "Sweet Papa"; 6 A shotgun house, a wagon, and a horse called Mac; Lockport; On war and peace; A peddler by wagon; "I lift my lamp beside the golden door"; Part III: Alfred's legacy; 7 Returning to a country in total upheaval; In his absence: The dismemberment of an empire; Alfred in Hadath: From mandate to independence; 8 On true resilience; Nadim Shwayri; Lily; Shwayr, in a child's memory; A cry in the wilderness 9 A singular message in the face of continuing adversityThe peace of circumstance: And the failed state; The message of Al-Kafaàt; Appendices; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823898503321 |
Shwayri Raïf
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| Albany, New York : , : State University of New York Press, , 2015 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Inventing home : emigration, gender, and the middle class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 / Akram Fouad Khater
| Inventing home : emigration, gender, and the middle class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 / Akram Fouad Khater |
| Autore | KJATER, Akram Fouad <1960-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | Testo elettronico (PDF) (XIV, 257 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.596569209034 |
| Soggetto topico | Libanesi - Emigrazione [negli] Stati Uniti d'America - Storia |
| Formato | Risorse elettroniche |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996600071603316 |
KJATER, Akram Fouad <1960->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2001 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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