The Late Ottoman Empire and Egypt: Hybridity, Law and Gender

ISBN-13: 9780367887070 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 152 str.

Elizabeth Shlala

Opis

This book contributes to a vibrant strand of global history that places law and other social structures at the heart of competing imperial colonial projects- British, Ottoman, Egyptian, French and Italian among them.

Spis treści

1. 'Levant' and Levantines  2. The De Rossetti Affair  3. 'Remind Him of His Responsibilities': The Consular Era and the Mixed Courts of Egypt  4. From Italo-Levantine Subjects to 'Mixed' Nationals and Italians Abroad  5. Contested Debt, Constructed Identification, and Gendered Legal Strategies in Istanbul  Conclusion and Epilogue

O autorze

Elizabeth H. Shlala is a fellow at Harvard University. Her work explores the nexus of modern migration and law in the Middle East. Her main research areas are two-fold: legal imperialism and colonial hybridity in the late Ottoman period and the social and economic impact of contemporary global migration.