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024 7 _a10.1515/9781474434379
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781474434379
035 _a(DE-B1597)615537
035 _a(OCoLC)1306539094
040 _aDE-B1597
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082 0 4 _a973.04927
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMatar, Nabil
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe United States Through Arab Eyes :
_bAn Anthology of Writings (1876-1914) /
_cNabil Matar.
264 1 _aEdinburgh :
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a1 online resource (224 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgements --
_tSome Notes on the Translation --
_tPart 1. Emigration, the Arab Nahda, and the United States of America – An Introduction --
_tPart 2. The Texts --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
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520 _aA vibrant collection of writings about America from its earliest Arab immigrantsThe first Arab immigrants to New York or Alaska or San Francisco were ‘small’ men and women, preoccupied with eking a living at the same time as confronting the challenges of settling in a new country. They had to come to terms with new race communities such as Indians, Chinese and Blacks, the changing role of women, and the Americanisation of their identity.Their writings about these experiences – from travellers and emigrants, rich and poor, men and women – took the form of travelogues and newspaper essays, daily diaries and adventure narratives, autobiographies and histories, full-length books published in the Ottoman Press in Lebanon and journal articles in Arabic newspapers printed in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York. Together they show the transnational perspective of immigrants as they reflected on and described the United States for the very first time.Key featuresNewly translated texts of the first writings about America by ArabsDivides the translations into four categories: minorities, women, identity and returnShows how Arabs admired the United States for its opportunities, religious tolerance and openness, but also criticised its brute materialism and debilitating work conditionsA detailed introduction explores the idea of the Arab Nahda and America
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)
650 0 _aArabs
_zUnited States
_xAttitudes.
650 0 _aArabs
_zUnited States
_xSocial conditions.
650 0 _aImmigrants
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 4 _aIslamic Studies.
650 7 _aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781474434379
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474434379
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