Contributing to a discreet historiographical corpus on modern trans-Mediterranean migration, Carminati’s rich and layered work is a must-read for several reasons: the important theoretical questions she raises in the broader context of the mobility turn, her contribution to the scant existing literature on the specific locale under investigation, and, above all, the sheer impressiveness of micro-historical materials Carminati was able to collect and combine with multiple governmental and institutional archives and published sources of disparate types (e.g. memoirs, travelogues, press) to write a ground-breaking subaltern history of the Suez Isthmus.
Biancani, F. (2023). Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said, 1859–1906: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal. Lucia Carminati (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023). Pp. 356. $49.95 hardcover. ISBN: 970520385504. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, 56(4), 696-698 [10.1017/s0020743825000042].
Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said, 1859–1906: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal. Lucia Carminati (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023). Pp. 356. $49.95 hardcover. ISBN: 970520385504
Biancani, Francesca
2023
Abstract
Contributing to a discreet historiographical corpus on modern trans-Mediterranean migration, Carminati’s rich and layered work is a must-read for several reasons: the important theoretical questions she raises in the broader context of the mobility turn, her contribution to the scant existing literature on the specific locale under investigation, and, above all, the sheer impressiveness of micro-historical materials Carminati was able to collect and combine with multiple governmental and institutional archives and published sources of disparate types (e.g. memoirs, travelogues, press) to write a ground-breaking subaltern history of the Suez Isthmus.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
