Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria

by Will Hanley

Book Overview

Nationality is the most important legal mechanism sorting and classifying the world's population today. An individual's place of birth or naturalization determines where he or she can and cannot be and what he or she can and cannot do. Although this system may appear universal, even natural, Will Hanley shows that it arose just a century ago. In Identifying with Nationality, he uses the Mediterranean city of Alexandria to develop a genealogy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231177631
• ISBN13: 9780231177634
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"