Identifying with nationality : Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria
Nationality is the most important legal mechanism for sorting and classifying the world's population today. An individual's state 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 it arose just a century ago. He uses the multinational Mediterranean city of Alexandria to trace a genealogy of the nation and the form...
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