Andrew Arsan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 335636 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andrew Arsan |
| NOMBRES | Andrew |
| APELLIDO | Arsan |
| FIRMA | ARSAN A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
An Ottoman Arab Man of Letters and the Meanings of Empire, C . 1860
This paper returns to one of the germinal texts of nineteenth-century Arab political thought, Butrus al-Bustani's Nafir Suriyya (‘The Clarion of Syria’). A series of broadsides published between September 1860 and April 1861, these reflected on the confessional violence that had rent apart Mount Lebanon and Damascus in mid-1860. As scholars have suggested, Bustani – now regarded as one of the pre-eminent thinkers of the nineteenth-century Arab na…
S tacy D. F ahrenthold . Between the Ottomans and the Entente
Historians have long known that large numbers of Arabic-speaking migrants left the Eastern Mediterranean from the late nineteenth century on in search of new livelihoods. By some reckonings, around half a million people—the vast majority of them from present-day Lebanon, Syria, and Israel/Palestine—left the Ottoman Empire’s Arab provinces between 1880 and 1914 for destinations as far afield as Iowa, Rosario, New South Wales, and Sierra Leone. Ind…
The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates
Figures, maps, and tables. List of contributors. Preface Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan Foreword: Studying the Mandates: past, present, future Nadine Meouchy and Peter Sluglett Introduction Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan Part I. The Mandate states in the world: international institutions, transnational linkages Introduction to Part I Andrew Arsan 1. Globalisation, imperialism, and the perspectives of foreign soldiers in the Middle East during t…
Roots and Routes
This chapter examines the networks of movement along which Lebanese migrants to colonial French West Africa travelled. Scholars have suggested that kin, locality, and confession shaped the settlement patterns of Eastern Mediterranean migrants, who were driven in their choice of destination by the desire to stay close to those with whom they had most in common. However, this chapter argues that these were not universal binding prescriptions, but s…
The Ties that Bind
This chapter reconstructs the political thoughts and sentiments, affiliations, desires and aspirations of Lebanese shopkeepers and traders in interwar Senegal. These, it contends, must be stitched back into our understanding of political culture and political thought in the interwar Middle East. This can, in turn, revise our understanding of the region’s history in several ways — by drawing attention to migrants, conventionally left to other hist…
Fears of A ‘Syrian Guinea’
This chapter examines the opposition of commercial workers, settlers and colonial propagandists to Eastern Mediterranean migration to French West Africa in the years before the First World War. It traces the contours of the exclusionary discourses crafted by these men, who cast Lebanese migrants as interlopers of empire who upset the neat categories of the colonial order of things, pathogens who threatened the stability of the colonial body polit…
Merchants and Magpies
This chapter reconstructs the trading lives and commercial strategies of Lebanese migrants to colonial French West Africa. While scholars have sought in the past to understand the apparent successes of these men and women, they have stressed structural factors, seeing their presence as but another sign of West Africa’s incorporation into the world economy, or tacking their waxing and waning fortunes to the ups and downs of the colonial economy. T…
Interlopers of Empire
This work is the first comprehensive history of the Lebanese migrant communities of colonial French West Africa, a vast expanse covering present-day Senegal, C{circ}ote 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 polit…
Citizens of the World…Who Stopped on Every Shore
The Phoenician past, historians have long argued, was the preserve of Lebanese nationalists who sought to trace the genealogy of their darling state into the distant past in order to articulate a distinctive identity for Lebanon reflecting their religious particularism and socio-economic interests. By contrast to this diachronic and often teleological approach, tracking the evolution of national consciousness, this article suggests a synchronic r…
On Forgotten Shores
For all their apparent differences, the colonial and nationalist discourses of the twentieth century shared a vision of the world as an aggregate of discrete bundles of land and people, hermetic units sealed off from one another and defined by their particularities. Whether they spoke in terms of nations or empires, regions or civilizations, they worked to produce the reality they described – one of bounded territories and populations, each one n…
Under the Influence? Translations and Transgressions in Late Ottoman Imperial Thought
This essay focuses upon a single speech by the Ottoman man of religion Shaykh Ahmad Tabbarah. Though short, it allows us to reconsider the ways in which we have framed intellectual production beyond Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For even as scholars have queried the diffusionist sweep of earlier narratives, asserting the intellectual agency of non-Western thinkers, they have continued to lay the emphasis on the ways the latter…
This age is the age of associations’
This article examines three diasporic campaigns orchestrated by Middle Eastern political entrepreneurs in Paris, New York, and Cairo, in the years bookending the First World War. Mobilizing across borders, their organizers were exemplary denizens of the transnational public sphere created by Ottoman migrants from the 1880s onwards. Exponents of globalism, they regarded the body politic as a diasporic construct unconstrained by territory. Furtherm…
Failing to Stem the Tide
In the years before 1939, the functionaries of Afrique Occidentale Française, or AOF, as France's West African possessions were known, consistently failed to introduce effective legislative controls upon Eastern Mediterranean migration under their purview. This was not for lack of trying; from 1905 onwards, administrators both in the territorial government of Guinea and in the Government-General of the Federation in Dakar repeatedly attempted to …
Interlopers of Empire
This work is the first comprehensive history of the Lebanese migrant communities of colonial French West Africa, a vast expanse covering present-day Senegal, C{circ}ote 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 polit…
This age is the age of associations’
This article examines three diasporic campaigns orchestrated by Middle Eastern political entrepreneurs in Paris, New York, and Cairo, in the years bookending the First World War. Mobilizing across borders, their organizers were exemplary denizens of the transnational public sphere created by Ottoman migrants from the 1880s onwards. Exponents of globalism, they regarded the body politic as a diasporic construct unconstrained by territory. Furtherm…
On Forgotten Shores
For all their apparent differences, the colonial and nationalist discourses of the twentieth century shared a vision of the world as an aggregate of discrete bundles of land and people, hermetic units sealed off from one another and defined by their particularities. Whether they spoke in terms of nations or empires, regions or civilizations, they worked to produce the reality they described – one of bounded territories and populations, each one n…
Failing to Stem the Tide
In the years before 1939, the functionaries of Afrique Occidentale Française, or AOF, as France's West African possessions were known, consistently failed to introduce effective legislative controls upon Eastern Mediterranean migration under their purview. This was not for lack of trying; from 1905 onwards, administrators both in the territorial government of Guinea and in the Government-General of the Federation in Dakar repeatedly attempted to …
Under the Influence? Translations and Transgressions in Late Ottoman Imperial Thought
This essay focuses upon a single speech by the Ottoman man of religion Shaykh Ahmad Tabbarah. Though short, it allows us to reconsider the ways in which we have framed intellectual production beyond Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For even as scholars have queried the diffusionist sweep of earlier narratives, asserting the intellectual agency of non-Western thinkers, they have continued to lay the emphasis on the ways the latter…
Failing to Stem the Tide
In the years before 1939, the functionaries of Afrique Occidentale Française, or AOF, as France's West African possessions were known, consistently failed to introduce effective legislative controls upon Eastern Mediterranean migration under their purview. This was not for lack of trying; from 1905 onwards, administrators both in the territorial government of Guinea and in the Government-General of the Federation in Dakar repeatedly attempted to …
This age is the age of associations’
This article examines three diasporic campaigns orchestrated by Middle Eastern political entrepreneurs in Paris, New York, and Cairo, in the years bookending the First World War. Mobilizing across borders, their organizers were exemplary denizens of the transnational public sphere created by Ottoman migrants from the 1880s onwards. Exponents of globalism, they regarded the body politic as a diasporic construct unconstrained by territory. Furtherm…
Citizens of the World…Who Stopped on Every Shore
The Phoenician past, historians have long argued, was the preserve of Lebanese nationalists who sought to trace the genealogy of their darling state into the distant past in order to articulate a distinctive identity for Lebanon reflecting their religious particularism and socio-economic interests. By contrast to this diachronic and often teleological approach, tracking the evolution of national consciousness, this article suggests a synchronic r…
On Forgotten Shores
For all their apparent differences, the colonial and nationalist discourses of the twentieth century shared a vision of the world as an aggregate of discrete bundles of land and people, hermetic units sealed off from one another and defined by their particularities. Whether they spoke in terms of nations or empires, regions or civilizations, they worked to produce the reality they described – one of bounded territories and populations, each one n…
Under the Influence? Translations and Transgressions in Late Ottoman Imperial Thought
This essay focuses upon a single speech by the Ottoman man of religion Shaykh Ahmad Tabbarah. Though short, it allows us to reconsider the ways in which we have framed intellectual production beyond Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For even as scholars have queried the diffusionist sweep of earlier narratives, asserting the intellectual agency of non-Western thinkers, they have continued to lay the emphasis on the ways the latter…
Roots and Routes
This chapter examines the networks of movement along which Lebanese migrants to colonial French West Africa travelled. Scholars have suggested that kin, locality, and confession shaped the settlement patterns of Eastern Mediterranean migrants, who were driven in their choice of destination by the desire to stay close to those with whom they had most in common. However, this chapter argues that these were not universal binding prescriptions, but s…
The Ties that Bind
This chapter reconstructs the political thoughts and sentiments, affiliations, desires and aspirations of Lebanese shopkeepers and traders in interwar Senegal. These, it contends, must be stitched back into our understanding of political culture and political thought in the interwar Middle East. This can, in turn, revise our understanding of the region’s history in several ways — by drawing attention to migrants, conventionally left to other hist…
Fears of A ‘Syrian Guinea’
This chapter examines the opposition of commercial workers, settlers and colonial propagandists to Eastern Mediterranean migration to French West Africa in the years before the First World War. It traces the contours of the exclusionary discourses crafted by these men, who cast Lebanese migrants as interlopers of empire who upset the neat categories of the colonial order of things, pathogens who threatened the stability of the colonial body polit…
Merchants and Magpies
This chapter reconstructs the trading lives and commercial strategies of Lebanese migrants to colonial French West Africa. While scholars have sought in the past to understand the apparent successes of these men and women, they have stressed structural factors, seeing their presence as but another sign of West Africa’s incorporation into the world economy, or tacking their waxing and waning fortunes to the ups and downs of the colonial economy. T…
Interlopers of Empire
This work is the first comprehensive history of the Lebanese migrant communities of colonial French West Africa, a vast expanse covering present-day Senegal, C{circ}ote 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 polit…
The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates
Figures, maps, and tables. List of contributors. Preface Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan Foreword: Studying the Mandates: past, present, future Nadine Meouchy and Peter Sluglett Introduction Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan Part I. The Mandate states in the world: international institutions, transnational linkages Introduction to Part I Andrew Arsan 1. Globalisation, imperialism, and the perspectives of foreign soldiers in the Middle East during t…
S tacy D. F ahrenthold . Between the Ottomans and the Entente
Historians have long known that large numbers of Arabic-speaking migrants left the Eastern Mediterranean from the late nineteenth century on in search of new livelihoods. By some reckonings, around half a million people—the vast majority of them from present-day Lebanon, Syria, and Israel/Palestine—left the Ottoman Empire’s Arab provinces between 1880 and 1914 for destinations as far afield as Iowa, Rosario, New South Wales, and Sierra Leone. Ind…
An Ottoman Arab Man of Letters and the Meanings of Empire, C . 1860
This paper returns to one of the germinal texts of nineteenth-century Arab political thought, Butrus al-Bustani's Nafir Suriyya (‘The Clarion of Syria’). A series of broadsides published between September 1860 and April 1861, these reflected on the confessional violence that had rent apart Mount Lebanon and Damascus in mid-1860. As scholars have suggested, Bustani – now regarded as one of the pre-eminent thinkers of the nineteenth-century Arab na…
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