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Migration, Colonialism, And Belonging: Tunisians Around The First World War, 1911-1925, Chris J. Rominger
Migration, Colonialism, And Belonging: Tunisians Around The First World War, 1911-1925, Chris J. Rominger
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This dissertation analyzes the little-examined transnational experiences of ordinary North Africans around the First World War, demonstrating how the war catalyzed a wide and unexpected range of concepts of political and social belonging. With the Mediterranean once again the site of massive migration provoked by war and economic inequality, scholars and commentators have begun to revisit the First World War’s legacy in the Arab world. Yet much work focuses on the emergence of Arab nationalism or on the diplomatic folly of the European victors. My research confronts scholarly assumptions about the temporal and geographic boundaries of the First World War …