Beirut on the Bayou : Alfred Nicola, Louisiana, and the making of modern Lebanon / / Raif Shwayri

• Autore: Shwayri Raïf
• Pubblicazione: Albany, New York : , : State University of New York Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.596569209034
• Soggetto geografico: Lebanon Emigration and immigration; United States Emigration and immigration
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Beirut on the Bayou
• ISBN: 1-4384-6096-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823898503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II