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Historians have debated whether Levantines, that is, locally integrated groups with hereditary ties to Western/Central Europe and/or the Catholic Church around the Eastern Mediterranean constituted a proto-ethnic group identity or were merely lumped together by pejorative exonyms. A close reading of Levantine writers' statements or lack thereof reveals that nineteenth-century "Levantine" intellectuals did not lay claim to a group identity, but rather to a space that allowed for ambivalent identities and spaces. Only twentieth-century authors cast Levantine identity as a quasi-ethnicity. The more recent generation has combined the latter assumption with the nostalgia produced by the former.

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NOT QUITE AFRICAN BUT NO LONGER LEBANESE - Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa. By Andrew Arsan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xviii + 341. $50, hardback (ISBN 978-0-19-933338-7).

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18 - Urban Milieus vs. National Communities

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NOT QUITE AFRICAN BUT NO LONGER LEBANESE - Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa. By Andrew Arsan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xviii + 341. $50, hardback (ISBN 978-0-19-933338-7).