Mediterraneans, 15 - (California World History Library) by Julia A Clancy-Smith (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"From the anonymous Sicilian fishermen to Maltese coachmen, smugglers and burglars, from Sardinian female servants to French women missionaries and Ottoman future statesmen, Julia Clancy-Smith draws a lively, poetic, portrait of the thousands of migrants who came to Tunisia in the 19th century, changing its space, rhythms and sounds long before the advent of French colonial rule: An ethnographic journey through 19th-century Tunisia that beautifully captures the spirit of the place."--Lucette Valensi, author of "The Birth of the Despot: Venice and the Sublime Porte" <BR>"In this meticulously researched, beautifully written work, Clancy-Smith has used an extraordinary array of sources from administrative and legal documents to personal letters and testimonies to bring the nineteenth-century Mediterranean world alive. Covering a wide range of situations from domestic service to contraband and exploring both the personal, legal, and administrative dimensions of each, she demonstrates the different ways in which private and public spheres intersected. The book is essential reading not only for scholars and students but also for anyone interested in gender, migration and the societies of the Mediterranean."--Patricia Lorcin, author of "Imperial Identities" <BR>"In her groundbreaking study of population movements, Clancy-Smith reconceptualizes the nineteenth-century history of North Africa by inserting the 'missing' people into the social fabric. She shows the roles these Southern Europeans of modest means played in creating a borderland society whose impact continued during the colonial period. Mediterraneans opens new windows into power structures, labor history, issues of gender, and social and cultural negotiations, along the way replacing binary constructions with a much more complicated world."--Zeynep celik, author of "Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Today labor migrants mostly move south to north across the Mediterranean. Yet in the nineteenth century thousands of Europeans and others moved south to North Africa, Egypt, and the Levant. This study of a dynamic borderland, the Tunis region, offers the fullest picture to date of the Mediterranean before, and during, French colonialism. In a vibrant examination of people in motion, Julia A. Clancy-Smith tells the story of countless migrants, travelers, and adventurers who traversed the Mediterranean, changing it forever. Who were they? Why did they leave home? What awaited them in North Africa? And most importantly, how did an Arab-Muslim state and society make room for the newcomers? Combining fleeting facts, tales of success and failure, and vivid cameos, the book gives a groundbreaking view of one of the principal ways that the Mediterranean became modern.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>From the anonymous Sicilian fishermen to Maltese coachmen, smugglers and burglars, from Sardinian female servants to French women missionaries and Ottoman future statesmen, Julia Clancy-Smith draws a lively, poetic, portrait of the thousands of migrants who came to Tunisia in the 19th century, changing its space, rhythms and sounds long before the advent of French colonial rule: An ethnographic journey through 19th-century Tunisia that beautifully captures the spirit of the place.--Lucette Valensi, author of <i>The Birth of the Despot: Venice and the Sublime Porte</i><br /><br />In this meticulously researched, beautifully written work, Clancy-Smith has used an extraordinary array of sources from administrative and legal documents to personal letters and testimonies to bring the nineteenth-century Mediterranean world alive. Covering a wide range of situations from domestic service to contraband and exploring both the personal, legal, and administrative dimensions of each, she demonstrates the different ways in which private and public spheres intersected. The book is essential reading not only for scholars and students but also for anyone interested in gender, migration and the societies of the Mediterranean.--Patricia Lorcin, author of <i>Imperial Identities</i><br /><br />In her groundbreaking study of population movements, Clancy-Smith reconceptualizes the nineteenth-century history of North Africa by inserting the 'missing' people into the social fabric. She shows the roles these Southern Europeans of modest means played in creating a borderland society whose impact continued during the colonial period. Mediterraneans opens new windows into power structures, labor history, issues of gender, and social and cultural negotiations, along the way replacing binary constructions with a much more complicated world.--Zeynep Çelik, author of <i>Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914.</i><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Clancy-Smith is forging new vistas and prospects for future historical research."--Journal Of African History (10/07/2011)<br><br>"Clancy-Smith's remarkable monograph sheds light on the myriad facets that makes the area so beguiling."--Journal Of Colonial & Colonialism History (05/20/2012)<br><br>"Exceptional and magisterial. . . . This book is an embarrassment of riches."-- (04/27/2012)<br><br>"Julia A. Clancy-Smith deserves great credit. . . . Mediterraneans is a work of fundamental importance."-- (09/17/2012)<br><br>"The book is replete with fascinating details about life in a multicultural and politically precarious city."--Choice (09/02/2011)<br><br>"The importance and relevance of this book cannot be underestimated."--Reviews In History (08/21/2011)<br><br>"There is little doubt that [this book] will become a standard for historical scholarship about the Maghrib and the Mediterranean."--Brock Cutler"Bltn Of Sch Of Oriental & African Stds" (10/12/2011)<br><br>"This book may well remain as a cornerstone for future research."--Adam Mestyan"European Review Of History/Revue Europeenne D'histoire" (08/09/2012)<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Julia Clancy-Smith is Professor of History at the University of Arizona. She is the author of the award-winning <i>Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters</i> (UC Press), among other books.
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