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The Late Ottoman Empire and Egypt Hybridity, Law and Gender
By Elizabeth Shlala
Copyright 2018
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
