عنوان

Identifying with nationality :

(Number (ISBN

0231542526

(Number (ISBN

9780231542524

Erroneous ISBN

0231177623

Erroneous ISBN

9780231177627

Title Proper

Identifying with nationality :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria /

First Statement of Responsibility

Will Hanley.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Columbia University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2017]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps

Series Title

Columbia studies in international and global history

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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 of the nation and the formation of the modern national subject. Alexandria in 1880 was an immigrant boomtown ruled by dozens of overlapping regimes. On its streets and in its police stations and courtrooms, people were identified by name, occupation, place of origin, sect, physical description, and other attributes. Yet by 1914, before nationalist calls for independence and decolonization had become widespread, nationality had become the defining category of identification, and nationality laws came to govern Alexandria's population. Identifying with Nationality traces the advent of modern citizenship to multinational, transimperial settings such as turn-of-the-century colonial Alexandria, where ordinary people abandoned old identifiers and grasped nationality as the best means to access the protections promised by expanding states. The result was a system that continues to define and divide people through status, mobility, and residency.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

JSTOR

Stock Number

22573/ctt1tkx4q9

Title

Identifying with nationality.

International Standard Book Number

9780231177627

Citizenship-- Egypt-- Alexandria-- History.

Group identity-- Egypt-- Alexandria-- History.

Nationalism-- Egypt-- Alexandria-- History.

Citizenship.

Ethnic relations.

Group identity.

HISTORY-- Modern-- 20th Century.

Nationalism.

Alexandria (Egypt), Ethnic relations, History.

Egypt, Alexandria.

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HIS037000

HIS037070

LAW051000

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Hanley, Will,1974-

Date of Transaction

20200822103345.0

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[Book]

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