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22%OFFWill Hanley - Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria - 9780231177627 - V9780231177627
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Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria

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Description for Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria Hardback. Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History. Num Pages: 416 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJ; HBG; HBJH; HBLW; LB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Nationality is the most important legal mechanism sorting and classifying the world's population today. An individual's place of birth or naturalization determines where he or she can and cannot be and what he or she can and cannot do. Although this system may appear universal, even natural, Will Hanley shows that it arose just a century ago. In Identifying with Nationality, he uses the Mediterranean city of Alexandria to develop a genealogy of the nation and the formation of the modern national subject. Alexandria in 1880 was an immigrant boomtown ruled by dozens of overlapping regimes. On its streets ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Columbia Studies in International and Global History
Condition
New
Weight
453g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231177627
SKU
V9780231177627
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About Will Hanley
Will Hanley is assistant professor of history at Florida State University.

Reviews for Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria
What nationality are you? In his stunning book, Will Hanley follows this modern question deep into the social existence of ordinary Alexandrians, demonstrating the contradictory effects of its imposition. The results open a portal, not simply on a unique city in the tumultuous years between Ottoman rule and Egyptian semi-sovereignty, but also on a pivotal global experience that historians have ... Read more

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