We tend to think of citizenship as something that is either offered or denied by a state. Modern history teaches otherwise. Reimagining citizenship as a legal spectrum along which individuals can travel, Extraterritorial Dreams explores the history of Ottoman Jews who sought, acquired, were denied or stripped of citizenship in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-as the Ottoman Empire retracted and new states were born-in order to ask larger questions about the nature of citizenship itself. Sarah Abrevaya Stein traces the experiences of Mediterranean Jewish women, men, and families who lived through a tumultuous series of wars, border changes, genocides, and mass migrations, all in the shadow of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the ascendance of the modern passport regime. Moving across vast stretches of Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas, she tells the intimate stories of people struggling to find a legal place in a world ever more divided by political boundaries and competing nationalist sentiments. From a poor youth who reached France as a stowaway only to be hunted by the Parisian police as a spy to a wealthy Baghdadi-born man in Shanghai who willed his fortune to his Eurasian Buddhist wife, Stein tells stories that illuminate the intertwined nature of minority histories and global politics through the turbulence of the modern era.
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Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13
9780226368221
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221845876
Product Key Features
Author
Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Publication Name
Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
227mm
Item Width
151mm
Item Weight
354g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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