Mule Drivers in Nineteenth-Century Lebanon: from local social history towards Global History

Abstract: This article makes the case for a project in the making: a study of the social transformation of the countryside as it joins the global market over the long nineteenth century, told as a collective biography of the mule drivers of Ottoman Lebanon - those obscure peasants who, owning one or...

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Main Author: Joane Chaker
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Series:Almanack
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2236-46332016000300027&lng=en&tlng=en