Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount   Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the   journeys of these villagers from the ranks of the peasantry into a middle class   of their own making.      Inventing Home delves into the stories of these travels, shedding much needed   light on the impact of emigration and immigration in the development of   modernity. It focuses on a critical period in the social history of Lebanon--the   "long peace" between the uprising of 1860 and the beginning of the French   mandate in 1920. The book explores in depth the phenomena of return emigration,   the questioning and changing of gender roles, and the rise of the middle class.   Exploring new areas in the history of Lebanon, Inventing Home asks how new   notions of gender, family, and class were articulated and how a local   "modernity" was invented in the process.    Akram Khater maps the jagged and uncertain paths that the fellahin from Mount   Lebanon carved through time and space in their attempt to control their future   and their destinies. His study offers a significant contribution to the   literature on the Middle East, as well as a new perspective on women and on   gender issues in the context of developing modernity in the region.

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