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A Slave Between Empires - A Transimperial History of North Africa (Hardcover)
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A Slave Between Empires - A Transimperial History of North Africa (Hardcover)
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In June 1887, a man known as General Husayn, a manumitted slave
turned dignitary in the Ottoman province of Tunis, passed away in
Florence after a life crossing empires. As a youth, Husayn was
brought from Circassia to Turkey, where he was sold as a slave. In
Tunis, he ascended to the rank of general before French conquest
forced his exile to the northern shores of the Mediterranean. His
death was followed by wrangling over his estate that spanned a
surprising array of actors: Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II and his
viziers; the Tunisian, French, and Italian governments; and
representatives of Muslim and Jewish diasporic communities. A Slave
Between Empires investigates Husayn's transimperial life and the
posthumous battle over his fortune to recover the transnational
dimensions of North African history. M'hamed Oualdi places Husayn
within the international context of the struggle between Ottoman
and French forces for control of the Mediterranean amid social and
intellectual ferment that crossed empires. Oualdi considers this
part of the world not as a colonial borderland but as a central
space where overlapping imperial ambitions transformed dynamic
societies. He explores how the transition between Ottoman rule and
European colonial domination was felt in the daily lives of North
African Muslims, Christians, and Jews and how North Africans
conceived of and acted upon this shift. Drawing on a wide range of
Arabic, French, Italian, and English sources, A Slave Between
Empires is a groundbreaking transimperial microhistory that demands
a major analytical shift in the conceptualization of North African
history.
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