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