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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: M'hamed Oualdi (Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies and History)Publisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231191869ISBN 10: 0231191863 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 04 February 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction: A North African Land and Its Ottoman and Colonial Legacies 1. Husayn: An Ottoman Reformer and a Product of Ottoman Reforms 2. Husayn’s Wealth: How to Build and Protect an Estate Between Empires 3. A World of “Affairs”: Litigation as a Tool for Negotiation 4. The Diplomatic Conflicts Over Husayn’s Estate: Ottoman and Italian Interventions 5. Sovereigns, Mothers, and Creditors: The Agency of Husayn’s Potential Heirs 6. Husayn’s Legacies in Colonial Tunisia: An Epilogue Conclusion: Local and Imperial Histories of the Maghreb Select Glossary Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsThe death documents of this post-colonial Ottoman Tunisian elite settler in Tuscany were a dense knot of financial, intellectual, legal, and kinship ties. Oualdi untangles this net before our eyes, revealing a figure who bridged the Mediterranean in a direction that colonialism tells us was not possible: from south to north. -- Will Hanley, author of <i>Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria</i> Oualdi has much to offer his readers by bringing insights from French and Arabic historiography on Tunisia's Ottoman and colonial past to an English readership, revealing the entangled nature of Tunisian, North African, French, Italian, and Ottoman histories. Following the life (and afterlife) of a slave turned minister, A Slave Between Empires is rich with new insights and tantalizing details, and Oualdi has clearly scoured many archives to put this together. -- Amy Kallander, author of <i>Women, Gender, and the Palace Households in Ottoman Tunisia</i> Oualdi has much to offer his readers by bringing insights from French and Arabic historiography on Tunisia's Ottoman and colonial past to an English readership, revealing the entangled nature of Tunisian, North African, French, Italian, and Ottoman histories. Following the life (and afterlife) of a slave turned minister, A Slave Between Empires is rich with new insights and tantalizing details, and Oualdi has clearly scoured many archives to put this together. -- Amy Kallander, author of <i>Women, Gender, and the Palace Households in Ottoman Tunisia</i> The death documents of this post-colonial Ottoman Tunisian elite settler in Tuscany were a dense knot of financial, intellectual, legal, and kinship ties. Oualdi untangles this net before our eyes, revealing a figure who bridged the Mediterranean in a direction that colonialism tells us was not possible: from south to north. -- Will Hanley, author of <i>Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria</i> This meticulously researched and beautifully written book shows how new insights into Tunisian history can be gained by bracketing the colonial and making a place for other chronologies. This historiographical positioning brings a full Mediterranean context back into view, putting the Ottoman empire, law, and Tunisian family history onto center stage. -- Benjamin Claude Brower, author of <i>A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of French Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902</i> A Slave Between Empires is a bold reinterpretation of North Africa's modern history: it revisits time and space by going beyond the narrow lens of colonization and by examining Tunisia as part of a large set of regional (European and Ottoman) networks. A must-read by one of the best historians of the Maghreb. -- Malika Zeghal, Harvard University M'hamed Oualdi's biography cum social history is dazzling. In life and death, General Husayn Ibn 'Abdallah's story reveals unlikely itineraries, unsuspected traveling companions, and hidden transactions that call into question conventional histories of nineteenth-century North Africa and the Ottoman Empire. The author's presentation of archives as exiles, emigres, and migrants is particularly original. -- Julia Clancy-Smith, author of <i>Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800-1900</i> Oualdi has much to offer his readers by bringing insights from French and Arabic historiography on Tunisia's Ottoman and colonial past to an English readership, revealing the entangled nature of Tunisian, North African, French, Italian, and Ottoman histories. Following the life (and afterlife) of a slave turned minister, A Slave Between Empires is rich with new insights and tantalizing details, and Oualdi has clearly scoured many archives to put this together. -- Amy Kallander, author of <i>Women, Gender, and the Palace Households in Ottoman Tunisia</i> Author InformationM’hamed Oualdi is associate professor of history and Near Eastern studies at Princeton University and full professor at Sciences Po, Paris. He is the author of Esclaves et maîtres: Les mamelouks au service des beys de Tunis du XVIIe siècle aux années 1880 (2011). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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