Late Ottoman Empire and Egypt - Hybridity, Law and Gender

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Shlala, Elizabeth H Shlala, Elizabeth H. Shlala
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.08.2017
• EAN: 9781138714151
• ISBN: 978-1-138-71415-1
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East; SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Ottoman Empire, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Middle East, Legal History, Middle Eastern history, Colonialism and imperialism, Regional / International studies, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, History and Archaeology, Ancient Egypt