Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an age of migration, c. 1800 - 1900
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In: The California world history library 15
In: Cass series: History and society in the Islamic world 4
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Band 48, Heft 4, S. 750-753
ISSN: 1471-6380
In 1762, a ghost ship appeared off the Tunisian coast between Tabarka and Bizerte during the spring equinox, notorious for treacherous weather. According to a local chronicler: "Perceived in the distance was a ship with masts but no flag flying that approached the shore, then drew away. It was the month of April [1762] and unusually cold . . . the next morning, we saw the vessel veer toward land while a violent tempest raged." Wrecked on the rocky shoreline, it funneled unimaginable wealth to pastoralists, villagers, and scavengers from far and wide. The ship proved to be without passengers or crew whose fate remains unknown until this day.
In: Journal of women's history, Band 28, Heft 4, S. 144-153
ISSN: 1527-2036
In: Journal of Middle East women's studies: JMEWS ; the official publication of the Association for Middle East Women's Studies, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 98-103
ISSN: 1558-9579
In: Comparative studies in society and history, Band 56, Heft 2, S. 542-544
ISSN: 1475-2999
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Band 45, Heft 4, S. 813-815
ISSN: 1471-6380
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Band 44, Heft 4, S. 625-630
ISSN: 1471-6380
This special issue originated in a series of conversations two years ago withIJMESeditor Beth Baron regarding the Maghrib's positioning in historical scholarship on the Middle East generally and in our field's flagship journal more specifically. WhileIJMEShas published a number of solo articles devoted to North Africa from a range of disciplines, we concluded that the journal's readers would welcome a corpus of recent work in the historical sciences for the modern period from roughly the late 18th century on. Emphasis upon the modern does not imply that other eras in North Africa's long history have languished for lack of renewed scholarly interest—far from it. The Punic and Roman empires are currently subject to vigorous reinterpretation in order to dismantle dominant colonial and Orientalist interpretations. Moreover, the literature on Muslim Spain and on medieval and early modern North Africa and Iberia, particularly the hotly contested idea ofconvivencia, has gone from artisanal to industrial production in terms of output. The regionalist frame for the special issue admittedly acknowledges a form of geographically informed "otherness," but it does so in order to question that distinction. And although the call for papers had invited research whose primary (but by no means sole) focus was the peoples, societies, and states in what we now know as Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, regrettably no submissions on Tripolitania/Libya were received.
In: In God’s Empire, S. 109-124
In: Review of Middle East studies, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 295-297
ISSN: 2329-3225
In: Review of Middle East studies, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 108-110
ISSN: 2329-3225
In: Gender & history, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 62-92
ISSN: 1468-0424
This paper investigates gendered mechanisms for regulating migrants and migration in a pre‐colonial Muslim state, Tunisia, from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the eve of colonialism. Trans‐Mediterranean migration to, and permanent settlement in, nineteenth‐century Tunis, the capital city, constituted a major stimulus for political, cultural and social transformations that endured into the colonial period. Employing diverse documentation, the case study analyses this Mediterranean migratory current of ordinary women and men to test the theoretical literature based primarily on trans‐Atlantic movements, which has emphasised the 'diversity of social positioning' for women migrants. The paper argues that for pre‐colonial Tunisia, a state that was both an Ottoman province and a part of the larger Mediterranean world, the system of diplomatic protection represented a critical form of positioning. Moreover, Mediterranean states, both European and Muslim, had a long tradition of controlling the movements of women in port cities. Two distinct historical moments in the settlement of women from the Mediterranean islands in pre‐colonial Tunisia are compared. This approach not only enables an assessment of whether women's movements across international borders can attenuate, if only momentarily, patriarchal authority, but also encourages reflection on how gender explains historical variations in global migratory displacements as well as to what extent colonialism serves as an satisfactory explanatory framework for the gendering of communal boundaries.
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 296-297
ISSN: 1471-6380
In: Comparative studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 125-129
ISSN: 1548-226X
In: Middle East Studies Association bulletin, Band 37, Heft 2, S. 302-304