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The Lebanese and the World: A Century of Emigration

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This book consists of a comprehensive collection of scholerly studies of the Lebanese diaspora over time. It includes socialogical, political,and personal studies of a dirverse group of people and the differant coping skills and strategies that come into play (likely) for any people. In so far as that is the case the book should have broad appeal to any people interested in studies of diaspora. The studies are particularly good because there are comprehensive records for that group and it is fairly recent in history and ongoing. Further, the Lebanese have settled in every continent and under such a vast set of circumstances that this study is of great value from a comparative point of view. In a time when population genetics has become a growing field and with it questions of cultural diffusion are more pressing this study can add insight into such issues that arise in that field of study. Besides the scholerly importance of this book many of papers are of a compelling human interest. It is not just a study of one people, but owing to the great cultural, religious and ethnic diversity of the Lebanese and the wide and varied circumstanve of their migrations this book must touch the hearts of all peoples. Their entry into many countries that were only seeking agricultural laborors and for which their material success provoked laws to ban them and later following their success in many countries by use of the label "asiatic" to prevent them from entry at some point into much of North and South America, and at some point even the United States these facts are things that many of us must be familier, Jews, Chinese, Japanese, Italians, Blacks and so on. The spirit to persevere comes over also as a triumphant one and for that reason this book is of value to us all. I recommend it to all and at the very least to schools and libraries. I bought the book for about ... but presently the book does not appear available anymore or at a used price much
higher then the original price. I hope that the publishers will remedy this problem.

Fantatatic book Very good info on the global facts