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Interlopers of empire : the Lebanese diaspora in colonial French West Africa by Andrew Arsan is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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This work is the first comprehensive history of the Lebanese migrant communities of colonial French West Africa, a vast expanse covering present-day Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Guinea, Benin and Mauritania. While others have concentrated on these migrants' role in the colonial economy, this work reconstructs not just their commercial undertakings and strategies, but also their everyday practices, understandings of place and kin, and political thoughts and sentiments. In doing so, it makes the
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Andrew Arsan
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780190257453
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Anthropology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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