Books & Ideas: Interlopers of Empire, by Andrew Arsan.

Books & Ideas: Interlopers of Empire, by Andrew Arsan.

Simon Jackson, « Not Quite White? The Lebanese of West Africa », Books and Ideas, 13 April 2015. ISSN : 2105-3030. URL : http://www.booksandideas.net/Not-Quite-White-The-Lebanese-of-West-Africa.html

Why do people migrate? How can they live in several worlds and many nations at once? Tracing the history of the Lebanese migration to West Africa, Andrew Arsan offers a brilliant reappraisal of diaspora, nation and empire in the first half of the twentieth century.

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