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  title info:
    title: Between the Ottomans and the Entente
    sub title: the first World War in the Syrian and Lebanese diaspora, 1908-1925
  name:
    name part: Fahrenthold, Stacy D.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xx, 211 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: In 1914, a half million Arab migrants across the Americas watched uneasily as the geopolitical ground trembled beneath their feet. As subjects of an Ottoman Empire then at war with the Triple Entente, Syrian and Lebanese migrants living in Brazil, Argentina and the United States faced new demands for political loyalty. From Istanbul, the Ottoman state commanded Syrian migrants to maintain diasporic fealty and to resist European colonialism. Living in a largely pro-Entente hemisphere, Syrian migrants daily grappled with political suspicion, travel restriction and outward displays of support for the war against the Ottomans. Between the Ottomans and the Entente tells how the Syrian and Lebanese mahjar (diaspora) became a geopolitical frontier between the Young Turk Revolution and the early French Mandate. Stacy D. Fahrenthold examines how empires at war, from the Ottomans to the French, embraced and claimed Syrian migrants as part of the state-building process in the Middle East. In doing so, they transformed this diaspora into an epicenter for Arab nationalist politics. Employing a uniquely transnational set of indigenous archives written between and among migrant activists, this book reveals the degree to which Ottoman migrants "became Syrians" while abroad, bringing their politics home to the post-Ottoman Middle East.
  table of contents: Introduction : between the Ottomans and the Entente -- Mashriq and Mahjar : a global history of Syrian migration to the Americas -- The Mahjar of the Young Turks, 1908-1916 -- Former Ottomans in the ranks : pro-entente military recruitment in the Syrian Mahjar, 1916-1918 -- New Syrians abroad : an émigré project for a United States mandate in Syria, 1918-1920 -- Travelling Syrians, immovable Turks : passport fraud and migrant smuggling at the close of empire, 1918-1920 -- Mandating the Mahjar : the French Mandate and greater Lebanon's census of 1921.
  note: Stacy D. Fahrenthold.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-sy---
    geographic code: a-le---
  subject:
    topic: Syrians
    geographic: Foreign countries
  subject:
    geographic: Syria
    topic: Emigration and immigration
  subject:
    topic: Lebanese
    geographic: Foreign countries
  subject:
    geographic: Lebanon
    topic: Emigration and immigration
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Refugees
  classification: DS94.7 .F34 2019
  classification: 940.3089/9275691
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford scholarship online
  identifier: 9780190872137
  identifier: 0190872136
  identifier: 2018039929
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180914
    record change date: 20190718165613.0
    record identifier: in00004079247