Law and identification transgressed political boundaries in the nineteenth-century Levant. Over the course of the century, Italo-Levantines- elite and common- exercised　a strategy of　resilient hybridity whereby an unintentional form of legal imperialism took root in Egypt.　　

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